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will he switch projects?will he switch projects?Posted Aug 20, 2003 17:27 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)Parent article: Alan Cox goes on sabbatical I have great respect for Cox, both for his coding, and his willingness to stand firm on political issues. As the most level headed Linux hacker, he's worth keeping an eye on. I wonder if he'll come back as a hacker of another free software project, or if he'll develop new free software as part of his MBA. Of course idle speculation is pointless but he's recently posted a few comments to the Xouvert project mailing list which seems like a strange move for someone that seems to be opting out of development soon. (xouvert.org) With his stature, he'd be able to bring level headedness to almost any project he chooses to get involved in. Worth keeping an intermitent eye on. Ciaran O'Riordan
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will he switch projects? Posted Aug 20, 2003 17:32 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] "Of course idle speculation is pointless but he's recently posted a few comments to the Xouvert project mailing list which seems like a strange move for someone that seems to be opting out of development soon." Alan (or his famous army of gnomes) has always tended to wander broadly. Often he's been seen in places where relations between free software developers (or their projects) need some patching up. I wouldn't read much into his posts outside of the kernel world.
will he switch projects? Posted Aug 21, 2003 0:28 UTC (Thu) by AlanCox (guest, #4858) [Link] Actually you read too much into that. I'm the maintainer (sort of) of the old Cyrix X drivers and help VIA in merging their stuff. I don't plan to be doing that end of September either.I may have to fix one or two bits during term breaks just because I'm possibly the only person on the planet with some of the old Cyrix docs except NatSe^W AMD 8) I'd also take issue with the other posters comment about user space. I started as a games programmer, I've done GUI stuff too. The kernel demands a certain set of skills and ability to think about hardware, but you don't have to think about extremely large systems, complex API's and other things that are required of other classes of programmer. Far too many kernel types don't appreciate how hard good GUI work is, nor why tools like python are so good for GUI work. Anyone who thinks the kernel is somehow magically harder should go read Pango - and thats "just a library that renders characters" right....
will he switch projects? Posted Aug 29, 2003 6:43 UTC (Fri) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link] Alan Cox wrote:> I started as a games programmer A quick blast from the past: d.rail, btidy, box, auto & extern. Chwarae teg, Alan me old mate, you deserve a break. :-) Chris
will he switch projects? Posted Aug 21, 2003 8:16 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] Alan Cox is on every email list...Shocking but true.
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