--- Jamil Ahmed <
itsjamil@gmail.com> wrote:
> To: bdlug@yahoogroups.com
> From: Jamil Ahmed <itsjamil@gmail.com>
> 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
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