Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:30:09 -0500 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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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...
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