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Alan Cox is moving on from Red HatAlan Cox is moving on from Red HatPosted Dec 24, 2008 3:44 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)In reply to: Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat by jspaleta Parent article: Alan Cox is moving on from Red Hat
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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.
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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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