Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat

ruphus13 writes "Alan Cox — one of the lead Linux kernel developers at Red Hat — is leaving the company after 10 years and is heading to Intel, where he can focus on more low-level development tasks. Some are speculating whether this is indicative of a shift to a more 'application-centric' vision at Red Hat. From the article: 'Red Hat is integrating more application related, user- and enterprise-centric tools into its well-established "low-level," "core" development and support tools. It'd be more worrisome if Red Hat neglected to strike out in this direction. Cox was with Red Hat for ten years, and regardless of any suspected change of course within the company, that's a fair amount of time.'"

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You can tell middle school is out...

[Anonymous Coward]

what with all the juvenile and moronic troll posts on /. today.

Damn. I remember back when this place actually had posts that discussed technical merits of issues.

Oblig: /get-off-of-my-lawn

I am shocked! Shocked!!!

[Willy Wong]

That someone on the Internet actually wrote 'by the way' instead of 'btw'.

Re:The best of luck!

[Have Brain Will Rent]

Not to pick on you in particular but could we please stop referring to human beings as "resources" and so on? I keep seeing this and other similar words being used in HR postings. It dehumanises people in general and of course it makes it much easier to "de-allocate resources" rather than "fire Fred and all the other people on his team."

At least words like "Developer" imply a human being. One who happens to have certain abilities, but still a human being.