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Wilfredo Sanchez Leaves Apple

Posted by AilleCat on from the darwinism-at-its-best dept.

An unnamed correspondent writes: "At least, that's the rumor on the street. Wonder what this will mean for Apple's Darwin project?" The rumor is confirmed, boys and girls, Wilfredo Sanchez has indeed left Apple. A statement is on his Advogato page; apparently he has gone to KnowNow. Sanchez says on that page too that he'll still be involved with Darwin maintaining Apache and Perl for that platform.

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  1. Alfredo's post to the darwin dev list by empath · · Score: 4

    To: Darwin Development
    Subject: In case you haven't heard

    You may have noticed that my email now tends to come from MIT instead of Apple.

    I no longer work at Apple. I now work for a company called KnowNow.
    My last day at Apple was Friday 2/2.

    You may also have noticed that I've since then helped Chuck import cscope, fixed a nasty in mod_perl, fixed up libtool some because I'm porting (Apache) APRlib to Darwin and tweak flex to install libfl.a as a link to libl.a. You might therefore come to the conclusion that my involvement with Darwin is not exactly over, and you would be correct.

    For what it's worth, I've left those things I can no longer reach in good and capable hands; I couldn't have left them otherwise. As the one guy on "Dark Angel" says: "It's all good, all the time."

    Pleasant hacking,
    -Fred

    Wilfredo Sanchez - wsanchez@mit.edu

    --
    "Please don't sigh like that, maam"
  2. Information about KnowNow by Ryu2 · · Score: 4

    Their actual page seems to be like that of Transmeta pre-2000... but the Google cache works wonders.

    --
    There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
  3. Sure enough by wsanchez · · Score: 4

    Yep.

  4. Waitaminute by firewort · · Score: 5

    Wilfredo Sanchez still has commit access on FreeBSD and Darwin, so even if he's gone to work for someone else, he still has the power to effect the code of major projects.

    Provided that FreeBSD remains as popular in the server market, and provided that Apple continues to integrate improvments in Darwin into their commercial release of OsX, then I expect we'll be seeing more work from Wilfredo Sanchez in the products we use.

    No cause for alarm.

    A host is a host from coast to coast, but no one uses a host that's close

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  5. Calm down, guys! by update() · · Score: 5
    Look, I know from following the Darwin lists that Wilfredo Sanchez is a huge contributor but -- front page Slashdot news? The Mac sites aren't making such a big deal about this. It's not like Steve Jobs or Avie Tevanian is leaving.

    The free software world has this habit of latching on to whichever developer brings himself to their attention. Just try to explain to people that Jamie Zawinski didn't singlehandedly write Navigator or that Jason Haas isn't doing PowerPC Linux entirely on his own.

    Again, no disrespect to Wilfredo (or JWZ or Jason, for that matter). I know he was extremely important in OS X development. But this sort of "Stop the presses! RASTER QUIT HIS JOB AT RED HAT!" mentality strikes me as more appropriate for Tiger Beat.