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Re: [News] Eric Raymond secretly dumps Linspire

____/ Doug Mentohl on Saturday 20 October 2007 15:11 : \____

> [H]omer wrote:
> 
>> Still, it does seem odd that he kept this so quiet, knowing as we do what a
>> motormouth he is. Maybe Sweaty gave him a Ferrari laptop as a leaving
>> "gift".
> 
> How did he attempt to keep it quite, by emailing Steven J.
> Vaughan-Nichols and the editors of Linuxtoday.com .. :)
> -------
> 
> # From: esr thyrsus com (Eric S. Raymond)
> # To: fedora-devel-list redhat com
> # Cc: lwn lwn net, editors newsforge com, sjvn vna1 com, editors
> linuxtoday com
> 
> "After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my
> limit today"
> 
> "Fedora, you had every advantage, and you had my loyalty, and you blew
> it. And that is a damn, dirty shame"
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html

[H]omer was referring to Linspire departure, not "goodbye Fedora".

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