[Sussex] Daniel Robbins joins MS

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Tue Jun 14 09:57:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:38:13 +0100
gteale at cmedresearch.com (Geoffrey J. Teale) wrote:

> 
> Microsoft is again ramping up it's team investigating F/L/OSS.
> 
> The latest new-start is the founder of Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robbins.
> Having transfered all of his IP to the Gentoo Foundation there's
> technically no issue for Gentoo, but it's interesting that Microsoft
> continue to take on people like this to help them understand F/L/OSS.
> 
> I wonder what Robbins offers them?  Can we expect the Longhorn install
> to require network access and take in excess of 24 hours to complete
> with the CPU's running suspiciously hot?

A usual windows install then.... :op

Matt




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