S. M. Mahbub Murshed Suman wrote:
>--- Jamil Ahmed <itsjamil@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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
>>
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.
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