gentoo创始人Daniel Robbins加入微软drobbins -> microsoft (June 14, 2005,

teaker

So everyone knows now that Daniel Robbins took a job with Microsoft. I want to state my opinion, mostly in response to the trolls out there (and slashdotters, if there is a difference).

He has a wife and kids.. With a wife and kids comes the responsibility to care for them. He is being responsibile and doing just that. It’s as simple as that.. Gentoo does not pay anybody, and even if we did we definately could not afford the full gamut of benefits that are a necessity these days (retirement package, HEALTH INSURANCE for his family, etc).

I’ve encouraged Daniel to find a salary job for a long time now, as taking care of his wife and kids should take priority over Gentoo. He is doing just that.

For those who are crying foul, there is no foul. I say that both as a Trustee of the Gentoo Foundation and as a friend of Daniel.

For those who think he should not be working at Microsoft because it is Microsoft, give me a break.. You know, if we want to be on the “open source” side of the game, according to RMS every single bit of code should be free and no money (wages) paid for it. His opinion is that programmers should bag groceries to afford their food and then do their programming in their free time. I don’t mind someone who wants to practice this belief, but on the other hand I hope you can see how silly it is in the grand scheme of things.

teaker

Drobbins working for MS (June 14, 2005, 00:36 UTC)
I recently posted a news item announcing that Daniel Robbins is now working for Microsoft, and that he has also finished turning all of the Gentoo IP over to the Gentoo Foundation. That combination of events is likely to cause some consternation. Microsoft is evil, isn't it? Yet why would somebody who chooses to work for an evil company voluntarily turn over a substantial number of copyrights and logos, getting very, very little in return. (To be specific, drobbins has been promised by the foundation that drobbins@gentoo.org will be aliased to whatever his current e-mail address happens to be.)

Of course, Microsoft is not evil. I disagree with many of their business practices, and in many cases I find that open source packages actually work better than do their close-source counterparts, but I'm not blinded to the fact that the Windows operating system is "good enough" for a whole lot of people. Moreover, Microsoft does hire a lot of smart people. In the long run C# may be as much a boon to the open source community as to Microsoft, and MS should get substantial credit for assembling a rather nice language.

In reading through the forums, somebody asked why drobbins couldn't just keep working on making Gentoo better, instead of working for microsoft. I hope that the vast majority of our users understand that, except for extremely rare exceptions, our developers aren't _paid_ to work on Gentoo.

fei

尽管他为人家工作无可厚非--但我还是觉得他不该去M$,他的身份和影响在那呢。

teaker

呵呵，在LIN出名，到M$图利。

以LIN为跳板？寻找m$长期饭票?

fei

2006年02月15日 08:11 赛迪网

　　【赛迪网讯】2月15日消息，在正式加盟微软仅仅八个月之后，前Gentoo Linux项目首席工程师丹尼尔.洛宾斯向软件帝国递交了辞呈。

　　vaunet.com报道，去年五月份，丹尼尔离开Linux免费软件开发团体，正式加盟软件帝国旗下。而在加盟微软之后，丹尼尔成为了微软Linux以及开放资源软件实验室的重要一员。

       

　　在接受媒体电子邮件采访的时候，丹尼尔先生表示，不能发挥完全的个人能力，是其离开微软的主要原因。“不能否认微软的Linux实验室非常出色，但是我在这里不能完全发挥个人能力，这让我感到十分沮丧，而微软目前已经准备好了一系列新产品的发布，因此个人发挥的空间就更小了。”丹尼尔如是说。

　　在离开微软之后，丹尼尔计划加盟ABC Coding Solutins公司，一家信息产品提供商，并且负责医疗产业咨询服务。对于丹尼尔的离开，微软方面表现的十分友好，公司发言人表示：“丹尼尔能够加盟 ABC Coding也未尝不是一件好事，这样他就回到了自己的老家Albuquerque，希望他未来一切顺利。” (n102)

　　作者：子期