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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. Suggestion by AmoebafromSweden · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why dont you Americans vote for Alan Cox's MBA as a Governor of california.

  2. Re:Wow! by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ya think? Or is it that slashbots just cant handle another opinion.

    Yeah, conspiracy theories about the gumment and microsoft in league with the MPAA are all fine and good, but god forbid anyone cast a doubtful eye on the saints of the linux kernel.

    I have no doubt that many contributors would have no problem dumping proprietary code on Linus for inclusion, if for no other reason than to see their name in the source tarballs to stroke their own egos.

    Pull your head out of the sand and look around.

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  3. For a second I read... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    he was taking a year off to get an MCSE!!!

  4. Re:I know this is supposed to be funny by Axe · · Score: 0, Troll
    Non-trivial documents should be done in LaTeX or Docbook, anyway, because they are much more robust and capable than Word.

    I am not a big MS Office fan, but it seems to me that you do not know Word capabilities. LaTeX and friends do not even come close. Yes, typesetting in LaTEx rules, and I still write scientific publications in it. For most of the daily routine work LaTeX suck rocks, with ugly slurping sound. Even when used with a WYSIWYG shell a-la Scientific WOrkplace (and yes - I can write Latex in EMACS without a manual)

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