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Quote of the week

Quote of the week

Posted Jul 27, 2006 16:49 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: Quote of the week by kirkengaard
Parent article: Quote of the week

> Exactly. "You linux people are far inferior in skill to the people that
> your project, by its own merits, has attracted. However, because of
> your poor interpersonal skills, and the fact that you simply cannot
> acknowledge your betters, these clever people are scared away by the
> requirement that their code must be judged by their inferiors."

Funny, one of the clever people supposedly scared away responded to the
thread:

> Both Jim Mostek and I left under our own steam at different times, Jim
> in 2000 and myself in 2003. SGI still has great technology to work on
> and, but the you can only take so many years of bad financial results
> and watching people get layed off.
>
> I still work on Linux, and follow development as much as I can. I keep
> trying to get back to OLS, but circumstances keep conspiring against
> me, maybe next year.
>
> Steve Lord


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