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LinuxPPC Co-Founder Resigns
acaben writes "Jason Haas, co-founder of LinuxPPC (and a semi-frequent topic of discussion on Slashdot) has announced he is resigning from the company to pursue a college degree and a life a little less hectic. Haas explained he was burned out, and that "Three or four years of trying to do as much as humanly possible will do that to you." There's more information available on his depature at MacSlash."
I often wonder how people manage to continously create some of the most useful open sourced products when they are not getting paid for it. Don't get me wrong I understand life isn't all about money, but you have to sometimes look at the realities of life, and you do need money to pay your bills.
Yes - but most open source developers have normal paying jobs providing their income. The development of a lot of the software you see on Sourceforge and elsewhere is being created in their spare time - if you are in the software business because you love coding, it shouldn't be a surprise when people go home and create something of their own to tackle a problem, create a game, provide them with a better debugging environment or whatever, without the pressures of commercial development.
Recently, there have been more companies providing salaries to fund development of particular open source projects - this speeds up the development process enormously, but it doesn't reduce the fact that people are still able to contribute their own skills to further these projects regardless of they are being paid by RedHat or Ximian or whoever. Don't think that Open Source development will disappear if all the commercial companies who contribute go out of business - it might grab less headlines, but it will go on.
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Toby Haynes
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I wonder if he would partially attribute this decision to the accident he was involved in. It seems like events like that make us appreciate life... and, depending on your view, get out from behind your computer for a bit. :-)
Good luck Jason!
He finally figured out what is important. Yes, driven people tend to get things done, but a lot of them forget they have families and loved one and forget to spend time with them when available. LinuxPPC will continue and has a hell of a jump start thanks largely, if not entirely on Haas. Now he can get the rest of the college done and dabble in PPC AND have time for the important things in life, family and friends.
Sometimes people forget that the really important things in life are their family and get focused on things that will continue after they are gone.
For some of us, it took deployments and a war to figure that out. I'm glad he does have the time and chance to get to that conclusion.
DanH
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With OS X just now getting off the ground, it needs as much application support as it can get. Haaz has the know-how to take these excellent open source *NIX apps/utilities and make them fly on X. Hell, he single-handedly ported how many of them to PPC?
Anyway, Jason- thanks so much for all your hard work over the years, and good luck to you in all your future endeavors.
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Good for you Jason. Before anyone say LinuxPPC is dieing; I say that by the time you finish your degree, LinuxPPC will still be alive and kicking. And when you are recharged, I am sure we can expect more good things from you. Come back soon.
On to some slighly OT comments about LinuxPPC in general...
I feel that the Macs are often overlooked as a platform for Linux. I recently got a chance to install LinuxPPC on an old 9600 for various benchmarking. It is easy to install (and co-exist well with MacOS) and extremely reliable as you'd expect from Linux. Macs are not just for artists, they are real number crunching machins, especially the G3 and G4. And they look good while doing it :-)
Forget OSX, "UNIX" is already on the Mac and it is called LinuxPPC.
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