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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."

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  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