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Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond

Posted by timothy on from the ms-could-be-the-world's-largest-foss-company dept.

Rotworm writes "Recently former founder of Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins, has managed to procure employment with Microsoft. Robbins describes his position as "helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." Seemingly there's no scandals as Robbins managed to finalize the transfer of all Gentoo's IP to the Gentoo Foundation, Inc."

3 of 527 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good luck! by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Troll

    I emerged KDE and it took over 24 hours.

    Hey, maybe it was that slow to *emerge* as to safeguard the *decompression*! :P

  2. Re:Good luck! by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Troll
    I emerged KDE and it took over 24 hours

    Well what do you expect when you're on a dialup link...

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  3. It's Karma poker! by Hosiah · · Score: 0, Troll
    Dear phantom modder:

    By the time you hit this post, you will have spent four mod points trying to shut me out of the debate. I have karma to spare, as if my whole life revolved around it. And a blog where I can post about the topic even more. I would think you were doing this to express an honest opinion, were you to have not picked such random reasons to waste your points.

    I don't insist I'm right. I don't even think I'm smart. But my points are well-considered, and I voice them because of the possibility that it will stimulate the common good.

    Microsoft is as dangerous as a cornered lion, right now. Later, they'll be IBM: great in their day, but de-fanged so that the rest of us can breathe around them again. But now, they do not realize it. All they know is how to panic.

    The symptoms of that panic are evident every day. The effects of that panic will be viscious attacks on our software freedom. Microsoft trying to Borg the whole Open-Source world one at a time will do no one any good; it just prolongs the battle. No matter *who* they recruit, you have two nearly identical products (*cough* that's a hand-wave!), one free, one costs $179.00.

    And Robbins knows in his heart everything I've said here. But the money mattered more.

    Any Linux user should be thinking right now, "What if Microsoft eats it *ALL* ?" We should at least express our outrage, to send a message. To fortify those who cannot be so easily persuaded.