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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. DRI team is no longer at VA by Allen+Akin · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As far as I know, none of us who were working on open-source 3D graphics at VA are still with the company. There was a trickle of departures (Jens Owen, Frank LaMonica, Gareth Hughes, et al.) over the past six months. The rest of us were laid off along with the Professional Services group of which we were a part.

    There are a few projects underway, but at present no one knows whether those will be handled by contracts with individuals or whether some portion of the group will be hired by another company.