Gentoo Linux founder joins Microsoft

orakel

The founder of the Gentoo Linux Project has taken up a job with Microsoft, according to the project's website.

Daniel Robbins joined the Redmond, Washington-based company on May 23. He had given up responsibilities as a Gentoo developer last April.

He will be helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects, he said on the Gentoo Linux project website.

Gentoo is a Linux distribution for advanced users. All packages which are installed are compiled from source for the specific architecture on which the installation is taking place.

Nat Friedman of the GNOME desktop project is about the only other prominent open-source figure who has worked for Microsoft, as an intern. Manuel de Icaza, the founder of the GNOME, was once interviewed for a job at Redmond but was not selected.

fei2

这个新闻够轰动的--Daniel Robbins帮m$理解开源和基于社区的项目？？？？借口吧？

graydream

不要说“借口”这样的很不友好的词汇，不要指望人会想RMS那样执著，呵呵。

laonainai

Daniel Robins 离开Gentoo社区已经一年多的时间了。
开源的优势之一就是离开了谁都能活得挺好。

paulin

Daniel Robins 也要赚钱养老婆孩子呢，不过是挺令人沮丧的消息；

jin.liu

Post by paulin
Daniel Robins 也要赚钱养老婆孩子呢，不过是挺令人沮丧的消息；

对，其实作为个人而言他的行为是可以理解的。不过作为这整个OOS也是真实挺沮丧。如果OSS不能养活人，那么OSS存在的意义呢？？？

vqq

Post by jin.liu
对，其实作为个人而言他的行为是可以理解的。不过作为这整个OOS也是真实挺沮丧。如果OSS不能养活人，那么OSS存在的意义呢？？？

os应该考虑这些问题，不过不能养活人就没存在必要太现实了吧，我没的教育系统还要不要？

fei

养活是应该没问题的--以Gentoo创始人这身份和水平--去哪都没问题--问题肯定是m$给的钱最多。

cocojumbal

打入敌人内部的地下党！

versace

别人凭能力赚钱，没什么不好。