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allucid
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| He does (did?) work at Microsoft. I can't verify that he quit, though. |
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Vanquirius
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So I heard.
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According to WikiPedia: | Quote: | | From June 13, 2005 to January 9, 2006, Robbins worked with Microsoft and described his position as helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects. |
Thus, I presume he has resigned.
Sorry for the TinyURL. phpBB doesn't seem to like long URLs with parentheses in them?
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| Wouldn't surprise me. |
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tsunam
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I got a email via linkdin that seemed to state that he was working for a different company(when I get home to the email I'll look and see if I kept it and give the name). So take that with a grain of salt..hopefully if he is then it'll be a better job overall for him and that makes him and his family happy.
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| He has gone to make big money with Linux. |
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| ZDNet a confirmed that Robbins left as of Jan 16th. |
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Yes, he has.
Now let the man get on with his life. |
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im glad he left frankly
someone who knows as much working for them (dont lie we all know he needed the money and for that I cannot blame him one bit)
I just hope he gets out of debt or has
how much did the forums raise for him on that anyway ?
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ShadowMetis
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| http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39252292,00.htm wrote: |
After working for Linux's rival for less than a year, Daniel Robbins has quit his job, complaining that he was unable to work at his 'full level of technical ability' |
He got tired of Gates making him talk slow for all the MS employees so they'd be able to understand |
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guzik
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| Quote: | im glad he left frankly
someone who knows as much working for them (dont lie we all know he needed the money and for that I cannot blame him one bit)
I just hope he gets out of debt or has
how much did the forums raise for him on that anyway ? |
You are right, because there is nothing more honorable/challenging than working for the least corrupt sector like ohhh I dono, healthcare? What ever happened to he got canned or burnt out. I like what the guy did, don't take me wrong, but common are you serious, you list this as a good move? I understand starting up some 1337 coding company in some coffee shop in austin but this?
http://www.alternativelink.com/ali/intro_altlink.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Robbins_%28Gentoo_Linux_founder%29 |
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