Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off 403
An anonymous reader writes "Linux guru Alan Cox is taking a year off from RedHat and kernel development to get his MBA. For years, Alan Cox has maintained the extremely stable 2.2 Linux kernel, and more or less been Linux creator Linus Torvalds' right hand man. Now it sounds like the 2.2 kernel is up for grabs to someone who is 'good at refusing patches and being ignored'..."
Naww!!! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm good at being ignored (Score:5, Funny)
hmmm....
Whew, they changed the story... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm good at being ignored (Score:3, Funny)
MBA? (Score:5, Funny)
perhaps (Score:0, Funny)
I really don't blame him. If I could afford it, I'd take a sabbatical.
Re:MBA? (Score:5, Funny)
Well if it's up for grabs... (Score:0, Funny)
I can do that! Pick me!
the truth! (Score:5, Funny)
The Truth is that Alan Cox has resigned from Linux development since he's not able to pay us the required development license (69,900$) we were asking to him. He preferred giving up instead of being sued to death as he deserves.
Cheers,
-- Darl MacBride
Summer job? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MBA? (Score:5, Funny)
Alan Cox is going to the NBA?? (Score:5, Funny)
Suggestion (Score:5, Funny)
Happy thought... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MBA? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:MBA? (Score:0, Funny)
4. Profit!
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MBA? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
swap jobs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:stupid question (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Alan Cox is going to the NBA?? (Score:3, Funny)
I dunno about you, but I've already bought my tickets in advance for his match against the Clippers...
As one A.C. to another.... (Score:1, Funny)
Signed,
Anonymous Coward
Papers? (Score:5, Funny)
And when he gets back (Score:2, Funny)
New Maintainer: Noooooooo! Mine!
Alan: but...
Possibly the willingness to give it back should be a quilification, unless Alan wants it back as his own personal branch.
SCO CEO (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously, RedHat figures they'll own SCO soon and need someone with an MBA to manage it for them. Alan Cox to the rescue!
Re:a year to get an MBA? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:the truth! (Score:4, Funny)
Linux thrives on it's coders not it's users.
(However a good chunk of it's users are coders and realisticly the users are head hunters for more coders)
Yester it was:
Hi I'm Timmy age 6 I made a rocket out of used toilet paper rolls.
(An impressive feat. The reason kids projects are inferoer to adult projects is available resources.)
Today it's
Hi I'm mike age 3 I fixed 37 bugs in the Linux kernel increased speed 7 times and created a feature critical to making the next generation computers possable.
Tomarow it's:
Hi I'm Steve age 2 I've learnned to steal becouse there is less chance of me going to jail for shoplifting than be sued by someone clamming they own the code I wrote.
(I was going to correct my grammer but I remembered that Steve is 2... I'll be dammed if a 2 year old has better grammer than I do.
A 5 year old yes.. but not a 2 year old)
A year off from what? (Score:2, Funny)
I need to take a year off from playing playstation, it's hard work, I need to focus on my edumcation.
Re:MBA? (Score:1, Funny)
Start golfing, if you can stomach 18 holes twice a week and $1500 per month to your local country or yacht club, you'll be thinking like a CEO.
Re:MBA?? AMERICA CENTRIC AGAIN!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:University Lecturer? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MBA? (Score:5, Funny)
You mean NBA'ers get all the girls (even the underage ones).
Re:Naww!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:An MBA has Nothing To Do With Coding Jobs (Score:3, Funny)
But, from what I've learnt, he better get a major haircut before those doors are closed.
Re:Which B-school, Alan? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm curious as to which B-school Alan will be attending. Will it be in the Raleigh/Durham area?
Eh! Last time I looked Alan lived in Swansea, in Wales, you know the United Kingdom? Despite appearances to the contratry, we have not yet picked the country up and moved it across the Atlantic to become another State...
Al.Re:MBA? (Score:3, Funny)
New language (Score:3, Funny)
Is that related to Lisp?
Re:An MBA has Nothing To Do With Coding Jobs (Score:3, Funny)
I totally agree. Alan's an inspiration. In fact, I'm going to quit trimming my beard and grab me some sweet ass black shades.
Well, I'd like to at least, but once my beard gets to be 2 inches long (around 5cm for those of you outside the USA) I look Amish. Way Amish. Random people will see me and shout, "Yo! Jebidiah, whassup?!" across the road. Nobody would hire an Amish coder or admin. Maybe a job in QA would work, but the interviewer would probably be afraid that I'd try and turn the whole system into a horse/hampster powered contraption made of wood.
"Payroll will be out as soon as the vet clears the horse for running again." Yeah.... that wouldn't go over well.
How the fsck can somebody take over the 2.2 tree w/out the massive angry-Gnome like beard? It's not not fair. Curse my Irish heritage!
Oh yeah, that's the other one I get. Leprechaun look-alike. I bear a striking resemblence to the Notre Dame mascot. See here [mcbeev.com] for an example.
I'm hosed. Who needs a professional butter churner? I'm in.