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    SubjectRe: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion
    Theodore Tso wrote:
    > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:46:18PM -0600, Hans Reiser wrote:
    >> Consider what happened with XFS as the article writer mentions. I met
    >> the original XFS team, led by two very senior developers (Jim Grey, and
    >> another fellow whose name I am blanking on, forgive me, I learned much
    >> from him in just a few conversations).
    >
    > I believe you are referring to Jim Mostek and Steve Lord, and yes,
    > they were very talented developers and engineers. I very much enjoyed
    > talking to them at various filesystem and Linux conferences and
    > workshops.
    >
    >> supervision. What happened? They got hassled. Instead of learning
    >> from them, welcoming into our community two very senior developers who
    >> knew a lot more than any of us about the topics they chose to speak
    >> about, they got hassled, they get ignored, they felt rejected, and left
    >> the Linux community forever, never to return.
    >
    > That's hardly what happened. SGI went through layoffs, and they were
    > hit. See: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/26/0743254.shtml

    Jim & Steve were never laid off from SGI. SGI mgmt -was- smarter than that ;)
    Neither account above is 100% correct, but I won't speak further on behalf of
    these gentlemen...

    -Eric
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