--- Jamil Ahmed wrote: > To: bdlug@yahoogroups.com > From: Jamil Ahmed > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:31:23 +0600 > Subject: [bdlug] Never get into debt! > > So how do you feel about the fact that Gentoo's founder Daniel Robbins > now works for Microsoft? If you don't find anything wrong with the > concept, let us re-phrase the above sentence: Daniel Robbins, one of the > best-known and most talented Linux developers, is now working for a > company that is known to have gone to extreme length to attack and > discredit Linux at every opportunity and whose chairman has been > actively lobby foreign governments for speedy adoption of software > patents. Now that doesn't sound so innocent any more, does it? > > Although Daniel Robbins is an excellent developer and writer (we still > keep and often refer to many of his excellent Linux articles on IBM > developerWorks), we also noticed, based on occasional pleas on Gentoo's > mailing lists and forums, that he isn't very good with managing his > financial affairs. He repeatedly stated that he had accumulated large > debts during the past few years and that he had troubles paying them > off. The Gentoo user community tried to help by organising "fund > raising" for their fearless leader, but it seems that these efforts > never helped to eliminated Daniel's financial problems. > > He left the Gentoo project early last year. Many speculated that the > main reason for his departure was the fact that working on Gentoo did > not provide sufficient income for him to pay the bills, so he chose to > seek formal employment with a regular pay cheque. But none of us would > imagine in our wildest nightmares that the lucky company acquiring such > talent will be none other than Microsoft, the biggest and most > resourceful enemy of Linux and Free Software! Of course, we don't > question his decision - after all Daniel is a free man and he is free to > do whatever he thinks is best for himself and his family. However, we do > feel the loss of some of the respect we had for Daniel for many years. > > The moral of the story? Never get into debt. If you do, you might have > to sell your soul to the devil just to save your family! > > Ref: > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050620#1 > > ==== S. M. Mahbub Murshed Design Automation Lab Arizona State University http://www.public.asu.edu/~smurshed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss