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Alan Cox is moving on from Red HatAlan Cox is moving on from Red HatPosted Dec 23, 2008 19:39 UTC (Tue) by cma (subscriber, #49905)Parent article: Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat Good luck for your new venture! Keep up the good work, obviously, on Linux land! ;)
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Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat Posted Dec 23, 2008 19:53 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
It's really good to seeing Intel making stronger manpower investments into the linux ecosystem. A close relationship between hardware vendors like Intel and upstream open software development projects makes for a stronger ecosystem.
Having hardware vendors employee people to engage in upstream development work is a very good thing. Having them chose to employ people who can positively impact internal corporate culture by helping to sustain and grow an open development culture is even better. Hopefully Alan won't just be hacking on kernel code. Hopefully he will be in a position to help to sustain and grow Intel's internal open development efforts into a corporate-wide culture.
-jef
Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat Posted Dec 24, 2008 3:44 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]
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It's really good to seeing Intel making stronger manpower investments into the linux ecosystem. A close relationship between hardware vendors like Intel and upstream open software development projects makes for a stronger ecosystem. """
Indeed. These kinds of moves matter more, in a way, than Oracle's grand announcement that it would be supporting its database on Linux back in (what was it?) the late 90s. The FOSS invasion has begun in earnest. Because we're all part of the mainstream. We are them, and they are us, mostly. Except that we have some different ideas.
Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat Posted Dec 24, 2008 16:18 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I'm puzzeled by these reactions.
it's not like Alan is the first, or even the tenth person Intel has hired to work on opensource projects, so this isn't an indication of any significant change in Intel, it's just one more person (admittedly one who has been extremely productive over the years).
when a company starts hiring opensource people for the first time, or makes a drastic increase in the size of the team I could see comments like this being warrented, but we don't make comments like this when RedHat or Novell hire one more developer (or even 10 more developers). for that matter Google could hire 100 more developers without earning comments like this.
is it just that people don't realize that Intel isn't a newcomer to opensource?
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