S. M. Mahbub Murshed Suman wrote: >--- 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 >> Jamil Ahmed is absolutely right about one thing: "Don't get into debt" it hardly ever furthers. He gave us one heck of a distro and now he needs to pay his bills. good for him. Just today I was wondering about his workstation over there at redmond. I bet he dual boots gentoo off of a floppy or usb thumb drive so as to not arouse suspicion. Then he'll have to act all mad when a virus comes in and act like his machine's been infected. If I were him I would have probably done the same thing. Then when that jobs ends I would work for whoever pays the most. Who cares! Let me the man earn money. --------------------------------------------------- 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