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Idea #16176: Hire sacked Mandriva contributors Oden Eriksson and Adam Williamson

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Written by nandersson the 3 Dec 08 at 12:12. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Not an idea
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Most probably due to corporate losses Mandriva sacks two top notch contributors:

LWN.net "Two Mandriva contractors - Adam Williamson and Oden Eriksson have announced that their contracts are being terminated. These two developers are responsible for a great deal of the work which goes into the Mandriva distribution; as Oden notes: "Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and alive."

My suggestion is to hire them before Red Hat does.
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Written by nandersson the 3 Dec 08 at 12:12.
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DrHalan wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 20:27
hm they just maintain packages, don't they?

rouge568 wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 20:49
Yeah, MOTU are usually volunteers. But if Canonical can afford it, no harm.
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Craig73 wrote on the 9 Dec 08 at 01:48
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They are probably wonderful individuals, perhaps great maintainers

How about hiring a graphic designer and user experience architect... that would seem to be of great value

Or how about a toolchain developer who can integrate/package a complete set (or couple complete sets) of development tools

I think Canonical can handle the hiring strategy just fine


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