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VA Lays Off Mesa Developer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-not-very-cool dept.

j7953 writes: "Brian Paul, the author of Mesa, was laid off by VA Linux. Here's his mail to the mesa3d-dev list." Other places are reporting that Keith Whitwell of the DRI project was also laid off. Presumably just two of many major contributors to open source, but honestly I don't really know who got the axe. So far Slashdot has been unaffected by the layoffs (VA owns Slashdot too in case you live in a box).

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  1. I was thinking that the tech industry was by glrotate · · Score: 1, Funny
    I was thinking that the tech industry was on the upswing

    Visited Earth lately?

  2. Re:It gets worse before it gets better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What about the Canadians?

    Rumor has it that we are dedicating 3 canoes to the war effort, fully stocked with beaver pelts.

  3. Re:Just in Case... Slashdot Life Raft Plans? by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sell Slashdot to NYT online. That would solve all the login problems too.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  4. Re:Sourceforge? by Coppit · · Score: 2, Funny
    Out of these companies, how many really will *buy* this? Especially since Sourceforge is also an Opensource project?

    Companies are paying to get it installed. Sure, it's open source, but that doesn't mean it's easy. As a matter of fact, at the University of Virginia we're using it to teach first-year graduate students about configuring, building, and installing Unix software. One of the pedagogical goals for their upcoming 2nd lab is "understanding poorly written documentation". :)