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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. Re:Naww!!! by BlackHawk-666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SCO wrote all the whitespace characters in the current kernel too ;->

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  2. Insight! by cyanobyte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't personal time off against the communist manifesto? Cyanobyte

  3. I have mod points on Kuro5hin.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so if anyone wants me to mod them up please paste a link as a reply, thanks.

  4. Master Cox? by potmos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When Alan Cox recieves his MBA, we will have to call him by his new title: Master Cocks^H^H^Hx. Sounds like Alan may be dropping linux dev for pr0n movies.