OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20596/Interview_Adam_Williamson Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:02:53 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Good luck http://osnews.com/thread?338776 http://osnews.com/thread?338776 Adam, I wish you best of luck in finding a new job.

Indeed, it seams to be very trouble times for everyone, but I'm sad to know Mandriva will be a little less communicative without people like you. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jcpinto) Comments RE: Good luck http://osnews.com/thread?338784 http://osnews.com/thread?338784 Good Luck Adam.. im sure you'll find another Job soon enough, could always apply to be a developer over in fedora/Redhat? ;) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments Goodnight, sweet prince . . . http://osnews.com/thread?338785 http://osnews.com/thread?338785 Agreed, it's very sad that Adam should be leaving Mandriva. Their tendency to be uncommunicative means that they need people like him. He has always handled peoples' enquiries politely and never gives a response that indicates anger or irritation; a rare thing, perhaps, in the Linux world.

I for one want to wish him well in whatever new he has decided to do.

Andrew (still in South Korea) ^_^ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fukudasan) Comments RE[2]: Good luck http://osnews.com/thread?338788 http://osnews.com/thread?338788 sabz: already waiting to hear back from them. ;) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments Good luck Adam! http://osnews.com/thread?338790 http://osnews.com/thread?338790 Really good interview ... worth the good read.
Good luck Adam .. hope you find a nice job (and knowing yours .. it should take you a split second to get good job). Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gnemmi) Comments RE[3]: Good luck http://osnews.com/thread?338791 http://osnews.com/thread?338791
sabz: already waiting to hear back from them. ;)

thats great.. they could do with more Developers ..Goodluck with the Application Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments RE[3]: Good luck http://osnews.com/thread?338802 http://osnews.com/thread?338802 Any Linux distributor (hell, any company!) would be privileged to have you as an employee Adam. Hopefully Red Hat are aware of this fact :-) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (davidiwharper) Comments Mandriva Laying off a number of people http://osnews.com/thread?338803 http://osnews.com/thread?338803 Seems like Mandriva are laying off a number of people http://linsec.ca/blog/2008/11/27/bon-voyage-mandriva/ http://www.beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/11/27/19/29/4... http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/11/27/bye-bye/

Goodluck Adam.. hope you get a job with redhat/Fedora .. if not elsewhereEdited 2008-12-01 10:48 UTC Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments RE: Mandriva Laying off a number of people http://osnews.com/thread?338804 http://osnews.com/thread?338804 Vincent is staying; he was briefly included in the list of people who were having their contracts ended by mistake.

To my knowledge, there's three people leaving: myself, Walt Pennington (who worked on corporate user relations in the U.S.), and Oden Eriksson (who maintained, oh, a whole bunch of stuff.) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments AdamW: You will be missed http://osnews.com/thread?338805 http://osnews.com/thread?338805 Mandriva's biggest problem has been communicating its vision and its products appropriately.

I have been saying this for years. You can go back through my posting history and you will hear me making these very comments a few years back. They finally get someone who does a superb job of positioning the company as a friendly, easy to reach and talk to company and they fire him?

If you were any more blind, you would be wearing goggles painted black on both the inside and outside.

It's a shame because Mandriva is indeed one of my favorite distributions, but this makes me wonder about where it's actually heading. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (porcel) Comments Rehire Adam Williamson! http://osnews.com/thread?338810 http://osnews.com/thread?338810 http://www.petitiononline.com/qws589/petition.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PocoO) Comments RE: Rehire Adam Williamson! http://osnews.com/thread?338811 http://osnews.com/thread?338811 Heh, no sweat, signed that as soon as I saw it! ;) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fukudasan) Comments RE[2]: Mandriva Laying off a number of people http://osnews.com/thread?338843 http://osnews.com/thread?338843
Vincent is staying; he was briefly included in the list of people who were having their contracts ended by mistake.

To my knowledge, there's three people leaving: myself, Walt Pennington (who worked on corporate user relations in the U.S.), and Oden Eriksson (who maintained, oh, a whole bunch of stuff.)
bad time to be letting people go specially around Christmas ,,maybe though you always could help out PCLinuxOS if you dont get a job with fedora/Redhat but im sure you will,, there always looking for more Developers Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments RE: AdamW: You will be missed http://osnews.com/thread?339324 http://osnews.com/thread?339324 Hi porcel, exactly my sentiment. Shame, just as I was getting back into using Mandriva. Guess it's not supposed to be and the cd's now are consigned to the back of the filing cabinet along with Novell's.

All the best for you Adam. I do not believe in petitions, who wants to continue working for who thought you are expendable in the first place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Barnabyh) Comments