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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. Re:Maybe they'll dump CmdrTaco by mnordstr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think he's kewl :)

  2. yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > VA owns Slashdot too

    And it shows.

  3. Re:It gets worse before it gets better by zpengo · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I'm not *hoping* we go to war, I just don't have my head so far up my cornhole (as you apparently do) that I'm not aware that we ARE going to war.

    This is going to take several years, buddy. You can sit there an wave your white flag, but the rest of us are waiting for the bombs to start.

    If you're an American, buy canned food. If not, you'd better hope your leaders have already proclaimed that they're on our side.

    --


    Got Rhinos?
  4. Re:It gets worse before it gets better by EnglishTim · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No. We haven't gone to war yet. I think it's reasonable to say 'we' as I'm pretty sure any American offensive will be backed up by British troops as well...

    Our leaders have declared that we will be going to war, but it's a bit difficult to say we're actually at war when it's still not clear who we'll be at war *with*.

    As for canned food, I think that's probably a bit premature. I don't seem to remember any countries in NATO suffering any famines during the Gulf war...

    As a side note, If we do end up going to war with Afghanistan I don't think it'll be as easy as it sounds... The Soviet Union spent ages at war with them, and didn't do very well. Granted, ol' Osama had a bit of help from the US, but even so, Afghanistan is a very harsh environment - one that even the Russians (who are no strangers to harsh environments) had troubles with...