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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. Links by Jim42688 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Brian's home page
    Slashdot interview with Brian
    Press release about Brian winning Free Software Foundation Award for Mesa

  2. Geocrawler too ? by bram.be · · Score: 2, Informative

    Geocrawler is no longer being maintained (http://www.geocrawler.com/about/)

    Geocrawler is not the most important site in the osdn but it's usefull.
    --Bram.

  3. LayOffs by Caballero · · Score: 4, Informative


    VA has shut down their professional services organziation. The DRI developers (Kevin Martin, David Dawes, Brian Paul, Keith Whitwell, Jeff Hartmann, Alan Hourihane, Allen Akin, and myself) were all part of that layoff.

    VA wasn't provinding the funding for us. We were funded by a number of other projects for graphics vendors and for other graphics research organizations.

    There are efforts underway to get the team reassembled at another organization, but that is still very up in the air.