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Gentoo Founder Quits Microsoft
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'"
What a great job the poster did at editing out any pro-Microsoft sentiments in the article summary.
We wouldn't want to have that filth on the front page of Slashdot, now would we? Here is the full quote that was only partially included in the article summary:
"The reason I decided to leave had to do with my specific experiences working in Microsoft's Linux Lab. Although I believe that the concept behind Microsoft's Linux Lab is a good one, I wasn't able to work at my full level of technical ability and I found this frustrating," he said.
Also, earlier in the article:
"I didn't make the decision to leave Microsoft due to concerns about the company as a whole -- Microsoft has just had a string of very successful product launches and I anticipate that it will continue to enjoy great success," he said.
It wasn't that shocking if you heard his reasoning. He would have continued working on Gentoo, but at that point he was $40k in debt due to his work on Gentoo. He needed to make ends meet, and working at Microsoft was one way to solve that.
Yes, I agree with you 100% - Robbins is a fantastic project manager, gentoo to this day has bar none the best documentation of any opensource project I've seen and to get a Linux distribution off the ground like that with over 100 competing, Robbins is a great man.
I was responding to the comments of "he must be such a sharp coder", his code is quite possibly the worst python code I've ever seen, hacking portage was just painful.