links for 2007-05-05
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“Leaving is never easy. But here and now the timing is right and so, after three and a half years, here’s to what’s next.” — Robert Love leaves Novell with a kiss. I’m hoping rml stays in the orbit of GNOME, but Google rumours suggest “black hole”.
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“Now that we have open source beer, open source cars, and open source photography, a social networking service run by Red Hat and based around open source software comes as no surprise.” — Nice writeup for the Mugshot dudes.
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“It’s become trendy in the last few years for kernel people to start emails with “NAK” (ie. I oppose your patch going in). It’s usually followed by reasons […] but it’s still an absolutely horrible thing to say.” — The kernel hacker equivalent of RTFM.
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“I’m not sure if I’m doing [Jeff’s idea] justice — it’s a pretty radical notion, and as an upstream-type hacker, Rusty was pretty enthralled by it. As a distro-type hacker, on the other hand, I’d have to say I was daunted.” — AJ’s belated recoll
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Hi Jeff, can you please provide a link to the open source car thing? I’ve been quite interested in the concept for a while, but wasn’t aware that there was an existing project.