Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC, submitted by highwayman
"It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of 'sudo' super glue can put his pieces back together again. I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community. Con - that champion of all things desktop centric - hung-up his keyboard this summer, the victim of an ideological rift within the Linux community." Update: And the first rebuttal appeared.
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2006-04-05
"Con - that champion of all things desktop centric"
seriously, what did he do that someone else working on the kernel team wouldn't have done? did he even write any code? he said it himself no in this interview ---> http://kerneltrap.org/node/465
all he did was apply patches to the linux kernel that were already laying around, and got linux to go a little faster. and he made a benchmark program to test things.
linux is still going places with or without him, but thats what people do, test it, and test it and test it. the linux kernel has thousands of people applying their own patches, or other people's patches and testing things. This is just 1 less person testing things out of thousands or more... this is open source development. thats just the way it goes.