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Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond
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."
rofl
Frist psot inviting a huge flamewar... all the gentoo fags fapping while their machine is recompiling for weeks for a 0.1% increase in startup time can get on their FORMER lead guy for BAILING OUT and following the COLD HARD CASH at M$ that the gentoo luser base will never, ever provide. THere goes the Open Sores SPIRIT and COMMUNITY... haha, fuck all that, gimme monies!
How many narrowminded linux biggots do you think will scream how this is a betrayal?
Ever considered subversion as a tactic to win rather then an all-out confrontation?
Chip away at the big wall one bit at a time and eventually it will crumble. doing the same from within the wall only hastens the end result
Count Dooku
who left the jedi order to go to the dark side...
Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?
I emerged KDE and it took over 24 hours.
:P
Hey, maybe it was that slow to *emerge* as to safeguard the *decompression*!
I think there are many other people that unlike you and Robins do have a clue and that have done much more for Linux and Open Source.
But they are not egotistic megalomaniac full of themselves that have to go whining at every chance at how 'the community doesn't help us, and we do _so_ much'. G3nt00 and ShrederFs are junk, the market has spoken, good riddance.
Any decent developers G3nt00 ever had did quit long ago because Robbins was such clueless megalomaniac jerk that no one could stand him.
And thank God for Al Viro that keeps your braindamaged junk out of the Kernel.
Here comes another one of my highly opinionated posts, and such as their nature, they seem to be downrated, but I must say this.
I have really lost respect for Daniel Robbins. Really. Actually, I've been working on a gentoo install off and on for the past couple of days and now I'm not even sure I should proceed. Why? Because the whole spirit of it has been tainted for me now. If I were to switch to debian as my primary distribution, I'm afraid that I would have to constantly hold back the bile in my throat and the insatiable desire from my body to puke.
Why you might ask? Maybe I should counter with a question of my own: What in the hell does he think he is going to accomplish?
Lets take a look of a quote from the article slashdot linked to: "helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects." Why do you think they would want to understand open source and community based projects? I can think of one good reason. I think it was many-a warrior that once said, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Another good quote is "understand your enemy, after understanding, go in for the attack" These ageless quotes would seem to apply here as well.
Open Source, and community based projects are the top of the crop of Microsofts competition right now. They've always talked in internal memo's about the dangers these have for microsoft, and have even tried to attack these dangers (ala Microsoft: Get the facts campaign)
I believe that this is a plot of microsoft to hide an insider so they can do some espionage, using Daniel Robbins as a mere pawn in the game. I can't believe he couldn't foresee this before he signed on to the company. Futhermore, I can't imagine WHY he would backstab his own community who has done nothing but serve him well, and aid in the attempts to compete with Linux and OSS. I know that work in IT has been hard to come by latley -- but really to stoop that low...
I must end this post by saying: I'm really disappointed in Daniel Robbins choice of career. Have fun with Windows, man.
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.
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.