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'"

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Re:That's always been my experience

[eno2001]

What link? What sig? What the hell are you talkin' 'bout Willis?!

Re:Hmm

[Intangion]

im a programmer, and a few years back i took a job at a game company as a tester, just to get my foot in the door, i already had 6-7 years of programming experience and several years of hobby game programming experience. But they just wouldn't let me do any coding, it was the most frustrating thing.. it was my job to find bugs but i wasn't allowed to fix them, and the guys who were supposed to just weren't that talented (except a couple) it also looked like they were going to fire all of the testers after the game released, so i found another job at a smaller game company as a lead programmer making twice as much (and later moved to another making twice as much again ;), ive since gotten back out of the games industry and am now making almost twice as much AGAIN thats almost 8 times more than at the tester position)

what sucks is they did fire all the other testers right after release... (which is why i left games industry, employees get used and abused, then trashed)

Re:That's always been my experience

[Criterion]

You might want to enable sigs in your preferences, else you might give someone the impression that you're not quite on the ball ;).