At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X"

Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by davidw on Thursday October 15, 2009 @06:01AM (#883077)

He's a slippery fish. I remember when I was at Linuxcare, in the middle of the dot com boom, and all the Linux companies would have just fallen all over themselves to hire him, but he never went for any of them, which I think ended up being an excellent choice.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by smanek on Thursday October 15, 2009 @06:56AM (#883128)

Didn't Linus work for Transmeta for most of the boom?

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by blasdel on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:38PM (#884220)

Yep, applying his intimate knowledge of the 80386 PC architecture to the design of the Crusoe's external ISA. I don't think he did any Linux-related work for them at all.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by davidw on Thursday October 15, 2009 @07:31AM (#883153)

Yeah, but I can't believe that all those companies didn't make him some very tempting offers.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by wmf on Thursday October 15, 2009 @05:00PM (#884264)

I think Linus refused to work for any Linux company since it would create a conflict of interest for him and give the company an advantage. Now through the Linux Foundation he can work for all the Linux companies at the same time.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by antirez on Thursday October 15, 2009 @08:51AM (#883254)

and... I really hope Linus is not in need for a work, otherwise there is something wrong in the open source world.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by dschobel on Thursday October 15, 2009 @01:40PM (#883833)

Speaking of which, how does Linus pay rent? Speaking engagements? Or is RH or someone paying him as a good will gesture?

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by messel on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:19PM (#884056)

I think he also received a buttload of stock from Redhat? as a thank you for pushing the OS forward. I'm researching where I heard this from now (anyone have a link?)

Ahh here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

"Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.[13] In 1999, both companies went public and Torvalds' net worth shot up to roughly $20 million.[14][15]"

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by grsites on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:13PM (#884041)

He works for the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin is his "boss".

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by NikkiA on Saturday October 17, 2009 @12:13PM (#887084)

It wasn't just the linux companies, most every company in silicon valley at the time was attempting to find a reason to get him on their payroll.

He could probably have taken his pick of any tech company anywhere in the world.

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Re:At GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X" by cookiecaper on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:38PM (#884098)

I think a git company would want Junio more than Linus.

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