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Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off

Posted by timothy on from the hit-by-the-year-off-bus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux guru Alan Cox is taking a year off from RedHat and kernel development to get his MBA. For years, Alan Cox has maintained the extremely stable 2.2 Linux kernel, and more or less been Linux creator Linus Torvalds' right hand man. Now it sounds like the 2.2 kernel is up for grabs to someone who is 'good at refusing patches and being ignored'..."

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  1. Cox should go to law school. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's where to future of Linux seems to be -- a court room.

  2. Re:Dumb newbie question?? by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its really not a big deal at all. He just basically has the final say on which bugfixes go into the "official" codebase.

    If you ran 2.2, you'd know that there are dozens upon dozens of diffs that you have to manually apply and then rebuild the kernel. Cox basically hasn't been doing his "job" in a long time, but hey, you get what you pay for.

    I hope that MBA gets him a nice sweet gig managing a 7-11 or something.

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  3. Re:MBA? by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea! Just look at how well all those MBA's are running the companies in America!!!

  4. Re:Naww!!! by smkndrkn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The parent was being sarcastic. How did you add to the discussion dickbreath? lol

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