[Sussex] Daniel Robbins joins MS

[Rupert Swarbrick]

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Stephen Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:38 +0100, 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?
>>
> 
> 
> emerge Windows 2005?
> 
> How long would MS Office take to compile? At least 2 weeks is my guess!
> 
> Steve W.
> 
> 
Oh no. If you've looked at the specs required to run longhorn, the
supercluster you need should be fine compiling even ludicrously big apps!

Rupert
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