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Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off
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'..."
you said 'cox'
He just got scared off by SCO!!
phirst faust
Alan Cox is a dick anyway
Nooooooooo!
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
and I've been lobbying for the position for quite some time now, but so far no replies.
hmmm....
Before, the story read that he was taking a year off to get his MBNA. Sheesh, I get at least two offers a month from those bohos for instant credit. :)
What does a Linux kernel coding god need with an MBA?
He's going to go brush up on his legal skills, and be a key witness/consultant against SCO.
I really don't blame him. If I could afford it, I'd take a sabbatical.
... ready to take on any challenge. http://osrin.netfirms.com/files/second.htm
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Now it sounds like the 2.2 kernel is up for grabs to someone who is 'good at refusing patches and being ignored'
I can do that! Pick me!
Now the latest non-sco kernel is no more. Now SCO can force everyone into 2.4+ licenses.
Once SCO wins this lawsuit and everyone has to roll back to the 2.2 kernel, this will be a much bigger deal. You're going to need someone who can handle the stress, because 2.2 will once again become the current codebase. I'd imagine Linus would just take it over again.
Hmm.. There's a thought. Maybe they know more about the legitimacy of the SCO case than they're letting on, perhaps he's stepping aside so Linus can move back in.
Anyways, can't trust any of them if they aren't on the payroll. Eventually IBM will find a way to "own" linux, whether they buy it from SCO or, hell, they could just take it. What are ya gonna do about it, they're IBM.
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Liars!
The Truth is that Alan Cox has resigned from Linux development since he's not able to pay us the required development license (69,900$) we were asking to him. He preferred giving up instead of being sued to death as he deserves.
Cheers,
-- Darl MacBride
Ok, I thought that each previous version was "set in stone," so to speak, and all new development takes place on the current kernel?
Now I envision that each kernel steps through major revisions (2.2 -> 2.4 -> 2.6), but development continues on each revision. Is this right?
Summer job at SCO, reviewing code?
Tarballs thoroughly licked!
That should read "Anal Cocks"
Seriously, I didn't even know he played basketball.
What is the process involved in getting someone to take over 2.2 kernel and who has the final say in who is selected? I have always been curious about the more politcal side of GNU/Linux and your answers would be much appreciated.
Cheers!
Why dont you Americans vote for Alan Cox's MBA as a Governor of california.
Melissa,
Will you be my work wife? I agree to your per seat licensing requirements, and after having read your EULA I believe I can work within it's restrictions (although a more permissive license allowing the modifying of source would have been preferred). I also promise to keep you patched and upgraded on a regular basis, and not to migrate to another platform without 2 weeks prior notice.
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
After years of coding he'll finally get to relax and get that elusive shower.
As a relative newcomer to linux I was wondering what the big deal with Alan Cox leaving to study is? Are the major Linux developements completed by just a handful of people? (I know that the code is reviewed by millions and can be changed by anybody clever / able enough) This may be a stupid question to ask on /. but as my primary school teacher told me if you dont ask questions you may never know the answer... :o)
That's all we need now is *another* MBA. Alan, stop wasting your time and get back to real work!
What team is he playing for?
I nominate Darl McBride. He has an intimate knowledge of the Linux kernel, intellectual property issues, and has a relationship with the Linux developer community.
I'm glad it's a MBA and not a MCSE 8)
That's where to future of Linux seems to be -- a court room.
he was taking a year off to get an MCSE!!!
The timing on this is incredible. The most stable kernal we've got that isn't under the SCO shadow is now effectively frozen, thereby preventing any potential code polution. Cox may have just provided the instant way out if SCO wins. I wonder if this is accidental or sheer genious?
Good luck Alan with the MBA, maybe you'll get paid what you're worth (finally).
It doesn't matter what you wrap your emotions around, Reality is a brick wall specifically designed to scramble eggs
First of all RMS Worshipper, this really IS "just the kernel", so it's a little uncalled for to call it "GNU/Linux"
It's just Linux...just the kernel. No GNU, well except for the toolchain, but then everyone would have to call their software GNU/Vim/Emacs/QT/KDE/blah/blah/blah if we all followed that convention.
Kinda ridiculous, don't ya think?
After they've done a hundred or so revisions of an development kernel (like 2.5), they stop adding new features, they keep revising to try and work out any remaining bugs, and they eventually release the result with the next even number. After a dozen or so revisions of this stable kernel, they fork the code again, and the stable kernel (with a few exceptions) just gets new drivers and bugfixes while the new development kernel gets new features and major rewrites.
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Somebodies asking for trouble
i highly doubt that.. it takes AT LEAST 3, if lucky, years to get an MBA..
He can go to any Linux development company
That's exactly it. Maybe he is tired in being paid in stock and would like a job that would give him a legit salary.
Maybe one day he wants to get a PHD and become a lecturer?
fuck SCO and those pussy ass bitches
linux 4 life kid, ya hear son?
i'm a fucking whip out my glock and put em to shock, son
you realize that it ain't a crime_, son.. till you realize that you're a shook one
lata nigga
"You're taking a year off, do you want to be a loser or something?" Is Alan like, insecure about his job prospects, or just likes learning? I would err towards the latter.
I hate sigs.
dumb question, but doesn't it take 2 years to get an MBA?
I have an MBA but have been interested in linux kernel development. Alan, could we just swap jobs for a year?
what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on.
you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.
they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.
of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.
that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.
communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.
you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.
meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.
don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.
nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.
the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk
no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.
the lights are coming up now.
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...) methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.
cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
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consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus, collectively, you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.
as has been noted before, lookout bullow.
to be precise.
So much for child proof lighter's
Someone like Havoc Pennington probably.
... I know what you mean about "being ignored", and I feel your pain. All the best, my man!
Signed,
Anonymous Coward
Isn't personal time off against the communist manifesto? Cyanobyte
What happens when one of his professors asks for an electronic copy in Word format?
Slashdot is like Playboy: I read it for the articles
Apart from being 'funny', honestly why would Alan Cox need any degree or certification? He can go to any Linux development company and put his resume on the table:
All of Alan Cox's credentials as a kernel hacker can get him is a job as a coder (software developer, senior developer, development lead, etc). In some places it may be enough to get him a job as a software architect depending on the kind of company he tries to get work at.
However if Alan wants to break into upper management or start his own company then all his l337 kernel hacking skills aren't worth a hill of beans compared to the knowledge he could get from an MBA and the doors it opens.
Funnily enough, I was just thinking about going back to school for an MBA in a year or two but wondered if it would be a bad idea for a person so interested in technical pursuits. But if Alan Cox can do it I don't see why I can't.
Thanks for the inspiration Alan.
Alan: I'm back! Can I have my kernel now?
New Maintainer: Noooooooo! Mine!
Alan: but...
Possibly the willingness to give it back should be a quilification, unless Alan wants it back as his own personal branch.
The title is obviously a typo...the only professional sports organization that has a team called the "Penguins" is the NHL. So it only follows that Alan Cox is going to become a goalie for Pittsburgh
"What do you mean you can't just GIVE stuff away if you want to make money? So THAT'S what I've been doing this wrong all these years!"
Is this the start of kernel patch micropayments???
Hey freaks: now you're ju
in anticipation. Thank you Mr Cocks and god luck.
Alan Cox [interview] posted a tiny patch to the lkml removing himself as maintainer of a couple of older/defunct drivers, adding, "Update other stuff because I will be away for a year". I scrambled for a Welsh translator to see what I'd been missing in his diary, but found no hints there. Fortunately a few minutes later he followed up with an explanation:
:-(
;)). Lots of people send me stuff as a gateway to getting it
"At the end of September I'm off back to University on a years sabbatical from Red Hat to study for an MBA. I've made the decision that I'm basically going to vanish for the year so I can concentrate on the course, and on the pet side project of learning Welsh."
The 2.2 kernel that Alan maintained for several years now "needs a new maintainer, someone who can spend their entire life refusing patches, being ignored by the mainstream (because 2.2 is boring) and by vendors (who don't ship 2.2 any more)." In parting, he optimistically says:
"A few years ago I'd have worried about doing this, the great thing is that with the kernel community we have today I know I'm not a critical cog in the machine. In fact I'm surrounded by people far better than I am and we even have Andrew Morton to keep Linus in check 8)"
Good luck on your MBA, Alan. I'm sure we all look forward to seeing you back in a year.
From: Alan Cox [email blocked]
To: Linus Torvalds [email blocked], Linux Kernel Mailing List
Subject: PATCH: Maintainer/Credit update
Date: 20 Aug 2003 12:46:41 +0100
- Roadrunner address is defunct
- 3c501/Z85230 are no longer maintained
- Update other stuff because I will be away for a year
From: Marc-Christian Petersen [email blocked]
Subject: Re: PATCH: Maintainer/Credit update
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:59:21 +0200
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 13:46, Alan Cox wrote:
Hi Alan,
> - Update other stuff because I will be away for a year
away?? Why?
ciao, Marc
From: Alan Cox [email blocked]
Subject: Next Month/Changes to where to send stuff
Date: 20 Aug 2003 13:05:10 +0100
At the end of September I'm off back to University on a years sabbatical
from Red Hat to study for an MBA. I've made the decision that I'm
basically going to vanish for the year so I can concentrate on abusing children, and on the pet side project of learning Welsh.
I've passed all my userspace projects on to other people already, and
I'll be vanishing from kernel space too (except to a few priviledged
processes
into 2.4 and 2.6. Lots of people send me security related stuff.
Can you in future please send stuff to
Security: [email blocked]
2.4: Marcelo/the list/someone he nominates to do that job
2.6: Andrew Morton or for small stuff Rusty Russell's trivial patch
manager.
The 2.2 tree needs a new maintainer, someone who can spend their entire
life refusing patches, being ignored by the mainstream (because 2.2 is
boring) and by vendors (who don't ship 2.2 any more).
I'm not sure what to do about the -ac patch. Most of the remaining stuff
is "pending Marcelo" for 2.4 mainstream, but not the O(1) scheduler and
some of the odder cool stuff (like the morse bits). As 2.6 becomes
relevant 2.4-ac basically becomes a fixed collection of add-ons that
aren't mainstream anyway. And of course there are other people keeping
patch sets in the same way nowdays.
A few years ago I'd have worried about doing this, the great thing is
that with the kernel community we have today I know I'm not a critical
cog in the machine. In fact I'm surrounded by people far better than I
am and we even have Andrew Morton to keep Linus in check 8)
Dal ati!
Alan
"Linux guru Alan Cox is taking a year off from RedHat and kernel development to get his MBA."
Obviously, RedHat figures they'll own SCO soon and need someone with an MBA to manage it for them. Alan Cox to the rescue!
SLASHDOT did it again! Again I must tell you that you are AMERICA CENTRIC!!! WHAT THE FUCK DOES MBA MEAN???? Plain English please!
From his part time hobby?
I need to take a year off from playing playstation, it's hard work, I need to focus on my edumcation.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
The perfect thing to do for a kernel fag.
Sorry, bad joke. Ahem...
Dear Alan,
Thanks for the good work. We owe you one.
Sincerely,
Geeks of the World
Ceci n'est pas une signature
so if anyone wants me to mod them up please paste a link as a reply, thanks.
Now it sounds like the 2.2 kernel is up for grabs
I nominate, CowboyNeal for the job!
He'll use Word. MBA's are about money not philosophy. One of the skills learned is not pissing off those above you.
But Word actually is the most useful document exchange format today, with so many tools being able to read and write it (even on Linux). Exchanging documents in Word format between users of, say, WordPerfect and Openoffice works much better than RTF or any other alternative.
Well, you are right. But on the other hand it is somehow unfair. the FSF and RMS coded long before linux was in place. Now linux gets all the fame and the FSF feels itself well, a bit betrayed. I think it would be a kind of honourment for them and that we should do that.
:-)
am I stoned or what?
Wiktor
Why would a Linux developer need a degree? Well they do need day jobs once Mom and Dad stop supporting them. ;-)
Also, once in academia (s)he might be able to stay there and have the tax payer subsidize their free software habit. Worked for RMS. ;-)
Which is one thing I can imagine he might do with an MBA. That is one fund that I would consider working with-unlike those unimaginative hypesters Kleiner Perkins promoting that silly scooter and lobbying for the H-1b program.
The FSF and the GNU project should get their "honourment" in the same way all of the other open source projects that you'll find in your Linux distro. Almost all command line software has a '-h' '--help' or '--about' switch, which is the PROPER way to be honored. Almost all graphical software has an 'About...' menu option under the help menu. From a pragmatic viewpoint, on a server oriented distro, is GNU or Apache more important? For a KDE based desktop, should the KDE project be given this level of "hounourment"? Should Red Hat Advanced Server be called Apache/Red Hat Advanced Server? Should SuSE Professional become KDE/SuSE Professional?
I'm not saying the GNU project isn't important or beneficial to the Linux community, I just think they're being a bunch of whiny complaining babies. If they don't like people referring to distros as just "Linux" then they should go off and make HURD something more than a hobby/research OS.
i know people who took it for 3 years.. now shut the fuck up while i pound you in the ass
if SCO wins in court. That's right the 2.2 kernel. And the 2.2 maintainer's gonna have to put up with all sorts of new feature requests, VM integration, iptables etc. to get it up to speed with 2.4's functionality. Not a lot of fun if you're used to stable kernel development.
...what uni is he going to? Moreover..how many geeks would apply there just to be near him? :o)
Anybody know? Just curious.
ceci n'est pas un sig.
You don't read very well, do you? Are you retarded?
Yes
Educational institutes for the most part give you a piece of paper and not much else.
For a second there you thought...you thought....AHHHAHAHAH that's SO damned funny!!!
on an aside, why do SO many Slashdotters think it is worth both their time to post and our time to read how they MISREAD the story!?!?!
I've always been impressed with how much Alan Cox does for the Linux kernel.
He's technically very sharp and handles an incredible amount of incoming patches, very professionally.
For his talents, he ought to be paid handsomely, but for a number of years he's simply been a trusted chief lieutenant in charge of operations for the Linux kernel. Linus gets his mug on the magazines, while Alan Cox is pretty much known only in the geek community.
I hope Alan's MBA brings him the money he deserves. However, Linux kernel development will hiccough a bit more without him releasing all these 2.6.x-ac? kernels.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
it will take a year long shower to clean that smelly motherfucker
MBA my butt,
he just wants to be left alone to watch the Rugby World Cup.
then they should go off and make HURD something more than a hobby/research OS.
Well, if that's what you want..
I wouldn't put it past them. Richard Stallman by himself could write many more lines of code if he wanted to. And last I heard the HURD was quickly becoming a usable OS, running most Linux software, etc. All the Linux drivers are GPL so it should be easy to port that code over to the HURD one day.
Personally I know I'd love to have a pure GNU OS. It would make me feel much better because then I'd know how they would wanted me to use it. To fight the Americanism and commercialism of at least the software markets, but probably all IP based markets.
Companies like Microsoft should not be allowed to exist even if the American government is too pussy to do anything about it. Monopolies are bad, m'kay.
Go do some research before you throw a hissy fit.
trying to smash all teh little communist mushroom housing that is fsf/opensource
as for a relationship
he certainly provides plenty of motivation for change =)
That's where the future of us all seems to be -- a court room.
Given his talents, I expect he feels he can better achieve his goals by working at the political layer, rather than hacking code at the coalface.
Either that, or Red Hat have said something like "y'know, we'd like to make you VP of ... but it won't look good if we do that and you don't have any demonstrable business qualifications". ;-)
Good luck to him - we need more technically clued folks in the former group!
--
You're thinking of CSV. BitTorrent is a program Linux users use to share MP3s and DivX rips of anime flicks.
If SCO somehow manages to pull off a win in court (Which is highly unlikely, especially considering that they've based their latest case on a misreading of copyright law), all the developers would have to do is remove the "infringing" code from the 2.4 kernel and replace it with new code. People who absolutely need a working Linux system the day after the case might switch to 2.2, but this won't really affect most users.
That is, if SCO ever plans on showing the code to the public.
Alan is VERY smart. Is his quote above the real reason, why he seeks an alternative career opportunity? Tech as a profession is dead if you're living in the first world.
"I never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Moral of the story is why pay some corrupt public or private school a bunch of money so they can own your thoughts and ideas.
If you have what it takes and your senses are alive, life is the greatest teacher or all.
Slashdot is being POS today and won't let me login. Please mod up.
Brewski_Z AKA David_1038
When cops shoot someone, they're usually put on paid administrative leave. Is something similar going on with Linus and A.C. with respect to Linux I.P. problems?
Well good luck to Alan.
No doubt he will breeze throught the MBA, but learning welsh is another matter, its a really really hard language to learn.
For example in most languages you have to learn how the verbs change in the sentance, but in welsh the nouns change too! For example the welsh word for Wales is Cymru, but when you say Welcome to Wales, "Croeso i Gymru", the C changes to a G. My patents both tried to learn and found it very hard. But then Alan may be like a lot of Welsh people who learnt welsh at school and has forgotten it since in which case picking it up again might not be too bad.
Tom.
i am sure Alan wants to learn using some MS apps like powerpoint or excel.
i wonder if He has enugh skills/experience to use windows though...
According to a guy I work with (Stephen Waldie), who used to be Alun's sysadmin in Uni "back in the day" Alun used to be a bit of a lazy bum and didn't generally do any work in Uni.
It will be interesting to see how he copes this time around. And whether he will make it to the 8:30 lectures on a monday morning (I have been told they used to have them but i am not old enough to remember).
I do suppose he has Telsa to kick him out of bed now though. LOL
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
i would suggest law school instead...
Finally, got into my account so I don't have to post as an AC...
"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Moral of the story is why pay some corrupt public or private school a bunch of money so they can own your thoughts and ideas. If you have what it takes and your senses are alive, life is the greatest teacher of all.
"Why would any sane man trust another that calls his business a practice." Challenge: To whom is this quote attribute
In case you are reading /. - just wanted to say thanks for all your work. Good luck and have fun with the MBA.
I will disagree with you on a small point.
Many web hosting companies run on 2.4 kernel, to switch back would be the nightmare of hell.
So you would see the public reaction and this might effect most users.
if you see me, smile and say hello.
What business is he going to start?
There are really two reasons to get one of these...you either want to climb the corporate ladder or you need to study the things needed to become an entrepreneur.
I suppose "personal edification" could be a third...but naaaah...it's an MBA after all!
Well, we already know
...
what will be Alan Cox MBA marks:
C, C++, C, C++, C,
Alan, in addition to getting his degree also has a medical problem.
That problem is a filthy gross foreskin which can be treated by circumcision. Alan, being British, was NOT circumcised and he now needs it.
His smelly forskinned GROSS penis turned girls off, and he is looking forward to getting his first blow job and losing his virginity after his circumcision.
Foreskins are TOTALLY gross, and ANYONE who has one is a nerd, dork and smelly LOSER. Hookers won't even suck uncircumcised penises. Europe's population is DROPPING like a stone necause European girls are DISGUSTED with foreskins.
That is why Alan "uncut" Cox is leaving for one year. To get circumcised and to get an MBA.
Obviously I need to post this annoymously because I once tried having sex with Alan but had to run out of the room when I saw his GROSS Disgusting, and filthy foreskin!
--GNU Groupie Chick
I'm curious as to which B-school Alan will be attending. Will it be in the Raleigh/Durham area? Full time? Part time/evenings/weekends?
Available local options for the MBA degree are:
I just started the evening program at UNC myself (the wife is one year into it). It'll be a very intense two years, but it'll also be worth every last dollar and minute.
Oh well. If you're in Chapel Hill, Alan, show up and say Hi to the evening class of 2005. Once we meet, I'll gladly introduce you once I recover from all the fainting.
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
Mods, you should definatly mod this up because we need to know if our #2 guy in the Linux kernel is having foreskin problems.
Cancer of the penis, AIDS, Smegma, and phimosis are all dangerous conditions caused by foreskins. I'm glad to hear Alan is getting treated for his foreskin condition, but if he denies it, we must have an intervention and force him to get circumcised.
It is our only hope in getting such brilliance to reproduce because no woman will have sex with a guy with a gross disgusting foreskin.
Plus, circumcision is better for his health, and we need our Linux guys to live as long as possible.
Don't forget that in order to be a US citizen you need a certificate of circumcision.
i rt hcert.htm
http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/consular/b
I understand there is a small group of people (4-10) who are the highest level developers of Linux kernel. They are maintainers of the particular version trees, large areas of the kernel, etc.
This group is very small. What will happen when significant percentage of them loses interest in further kernel development? What will happen if Linus himself moves on?
And how does Linux situation compare to other OSS projects - Apache, BSD?
Was he paid to maintain the 2.2 kernel? And if so, by who? OSDN?
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.
But, I'd not want the thankless job Alan's been doing unless someone like Red Hat hired me to do it and paid me well. (Hint...Hint... :-)
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
The guy was "too lazy" and couldn't "make the grade" because we all know NYU Stern's regularly accepts bums and morons into their MBA program .
He's making a joke you faggot. Go back to playing dungeons & dragons and jerking off to anime.
that's why he's going for a Business degree. If he went for a CS degree, he'd be mobbed on a daily business. But in the business program, he's pretty much anonymous. "Who is that geeky looking misfit, anyway?" "Cocks... what kind of a name is 'Cocks'?"
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Alan Cox wrote: [..] No I didnt. Someone else wrote that. Please keep attributions straight. -- From linux-kernel
> Alan Cox wrote: [..] No I didnt. Someone else wrote that. Please keep attributions straight. -- From linux-kernel
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Coincidence? or one of the
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
Is that related to Lisp?
an ill wind that blows no good
>>Maintaining an older kernel is boring...
Maintaining software does not need to be boring. I think it is quite challenging to enhance, fix things up and make it even more stable. Sure, it's not the same as developing some new hyper cool wireless network driver or application. It's just a different job.
Alan,
For what it's worth, the worst part of getting an MBA is when they scoop out half your brain. And I hear that doesn't even hurt that much.
I used to quite ritually read his Diary online at http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ until he started writing it in Welsh! Did anyone else suffer from a similar fate?
>> you're shipping money to overseas economies
Wake up. This is capitalism, not mercantilism. Shipping money is a necessity. Your capital can do wonders in that country which will provide you with resources cheaper than the ones you can get at home.
>> and you're training a workforce to compete against you once it returns home (which most do).
Yes. And if you care to read about economy, you'll learn that some sectors exist which are dogs -- basically doing that business is never going to get you nowhere.
>> using H1B workers and/or outsourcing is moronic in the long run
In some instances yes, in some cases not. BTW, if you really think so, try to hire a genuine wasp, masters degree and all, to do your laundry. And when you pay him, be generous, after all your dirty clothes are a national matter.
>> against the best interests of the United States and it's citizens
I take you're not the average American. I suppose the average US citizen is a good fellow concerned about our troubled problems and wants peace, just like me and other non-US citizens.
And stop that "us and them" bullshit: we're in the same boat, jerk. 10 generations into the future, who is gonna marry your descendent? Maybe the ones you call enemy now!
>> Those are the facts, Jack.
No, they are not. It's only your biased misinterpretation of reality. Open your eyes, I warn you again.
I asked. The SCO Group won't even clear the BSD variants. Not that they have the right to "clear" anything since it seems they're the ones who've been stealing stuff (even the BSD stuff they included, they haven't acknowledged as per the rules. We respect IP, and the tooth fairy.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
It's true. It happened to me!
I, too, decided to take a year off my big geeky life to go to an MBA, and I immediately started to get hot girls - can't get them off me. And I was single for 5 years as a UNIX geek before getting the MBA.
I truely believe that it's how we geeks treat women that makes them dislike us. Isolation from females make us treat them like Godesses/Aliens instead of humans, and it's evidently a big turn off.
RedHat will receive 5000 resumes for Cox's job ...
I sent an email to Bill Gates.
It read "Hey Bill! You Suck! Ha Ha."
I haven't received a reply yet.
I've been thinking of sending a similar email to Fearless Leader. He was in town today.
This signature used to contain a cute kitty virus with ansii art. Please set the slashdot editors on fire. Thank you
400 posts and nothing intelligent written at all..
Women can smell desperation. I as a sexy troll can tell you all about this (unlike those Anonymous Cowards who I suspect are all into men). Even though my bitch ass girlfriend isn't talking to me. Hmm.
What are good education organizations and what is the best route for actually learning and standing on the shoulders of giants thus resulting in your enhanced business "running" skills?
p.s. Many also know that there is a difference between getting a job and running a business... running a business requires real skill while many jobs are filled by those who can convincingly lie and pad their resumes. Take away the safety net of PHB's and you MUST have real skill, experience and talent.