Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 16:56 UTC, submitted by diegocg
In a surprising move, Andrew Morton, the Linux kernel co-maintainer, announced that he is moving to Google and that he will continue being a Linux maintainer. A detailed article can be found here: "It is beneficial to me (and to Linux) that I be in day-to-day contact with people who use Linux for real things. Hence Google is a good all-round fit."
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2006-08-07
I think that it is lost on people that he can do whatever he wants. I appreciate what he has done for my computer but if he wants to stop contributing to the world and myself then that is alright. He has the right to make a spectacular living. If he were to never contribute another scrap of code to the community again he would have already done a thousand times as much good as the average person.
No I've never spoken to Andrew before and I am not his wife.
Hopefully Google will do the right thing and will give back some of their very powerful technology and wealth that would only have been possible with the help of people like Andrew Morton, and others. However, I don't feel like the average Linux user is entitled anything from these people. We all invest in our future and all of Andrew's work up until now could be seen as a way of getting to have the pimp job at Google. It just may be that he had to help a few people along the way.