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Gentoo Founder Quits Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the employee-retention-problems dept.

ChocLinux writes "ZDNet is reporting that Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux, has left his job at Microsoft after only eight months. From the article: 'The reason I decided to leave had to do with my specific experiences working in Microsoft's Linux Lab,' says Robbins. 'I wasn't able to work at my full level of technical ability and I found this frustrating'"

3 of 271 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nice Editing Job... by Gonoff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    will continue to enjoy great success

    By MS own definituion of success, they will certainly carry on succeeding for some time yet.

    What definition is that?
    They will continue to release shoddy software with many flaws that should have been removed before it got out of beta certainly but, more importantly to them, they will carry on getting a lot of money from people.

    --
    I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
  2. Re:probably unable to buy into the b.s. by andreyw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "hive mind"?

    Boy, I wonder how long it took you to come up with that one.

    Idiot. Deep in your soul, you're just like all the other losers on slashdot daily taking part in the Microsoft-bashing orgy - wishing desperately you were good enough for Microsoft to give you an interview.

  3. Re:For most... by Curtman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Why didn't the STL developers simply add a function that returns a copy (like string.str() as opposed to the static std.c_str())?"

    They did. It's called 'copy' surprisingly enough.