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Not for Long
Not for Long
Posted Oct 1, 2005 5:33 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Mercurial loses a developer by drag
Parent article: Mercurial loses a developer
I think drag has hit it. Nobody likes to be pushed around by one's software vendor. Mr. O'Sullivan himself might be switching his employer to a system that doesn't subject them to threatening phone calls. It makes me wonder, though, if his employer doesn't just resent his moonlighting on a Free Software project. Or maybe Mr. O'Sullivan doesn't plan to stay long with an employer so willing to be pushed around by its vendors. Perhaps he has found work helping users of other systems migrate to more modern ones and away from legally hazardous ones.
Donning the tinfoil hat for a moment, I wonder if this isn't all a puckish game cooked up by Linus and Larry to provoke people. Larry doesn't need the money, and he actually does have (or once had) a sense of humor.
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Not for Long
Posted Oct 2, 2005 2:32 UTC (Sun) by huffd (guest, #10382) [Link]
Donning the tinfoil hat for a moment, I wonder if this isn't all a puckish game cooked up by Linus and Larry to provoke people.Amazing, that itch I get behind my left ear just before I discover a new conspiracy, kicked into overdrive just moments before reading the above quote. I'll withhold my thoughts on this for now, but you'd be correct in a different timeframe, say a few years ago. Given the outcome of recent events it gets harder and harder to put it past either one of them.
Not for Long
Posted Oct 2, 2005 22:09 UTC (Sun) by aya (guest, #19767) [Link]
Sorry, what does Linus stand to gain from Larry's pissing people off?
What Linus stands to gain
Posted Oct 5, 2005 5:49 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]
Amusement value, mostly. Walk the plank, landlubbers! Etcetera, arrr.