So someone just asked Linus why he chose transmeta, and what he was thinking before he accepted.
Linus talked about how TM flew him out from Finland, because he had to sign the NDA before they would tell him anything. So then he had a one day discussion of what TM was working on, and then he went back to his hotel room and thought "what a bunch of crazy guys".
He said that he was looking at a job which would offer him something fun, a chance to work on a cool new technology.
Then a journalist asked him what job offers he turned down, and he repeated his common line about getting lots of offers from Linux companies, and how he really didn't want to polarize the community towards one 'official' linux to the detriment of others. So he chose a company that offered him a chance to work on a fun project that included linux but wasn't a distribution.
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Dan, What are you doing up at 5:30 AM reading slashdot? Do you ever sleep?
So someone just asked Linus why he chose transmeta, and what he was thinking before he accepted.
Linus talked about how TM flew him out from Finland, because he had to sign the NDA before they would tell him anything. So then he had a one day discussion of what TM was working on, and then he went back to his hotel room and thought "what a bunch of crazy guys".
He said that he was looking at a job which would offer him something fun, a chance to work on a cool new technology.
Then a journalist asked him what job offers he turned down, and he repeated his common line about getting lots of offers from Linux companies, and how he really didn't want to polarize the community towards one 'official' linux to the detriment of others. So he chose a company that offered him a chance to work on a fun project that included linux but wasn't a distribution.