Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @04:11AM from the bet-wherever-he's-going-he'll-have-electricity-and-heat dept.

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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Re:There is speculation... by 0xABADC0DA · 2008-12-30 04:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia...
The fact that there is always completely uninformed speculation is why it actually says something about Red Hat that Cox left. RH would have done a lot to keep him, but it wasn't enough.