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Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by abiox » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:35 PM UTC

simplexion wrote: post #109

abiox wrote: post #94

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i wonder; do many people usually get offended merely by some abstract sense of "going against my worldview"?

Yes. That is exactly what being offended by verbal attacks to your religion is.

"verbal attacks to your religion" can mean many things, including abusive and disrespectful behavior, so it's unclear.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 3:05 AM UTC

digi_owl wrote: post #90

chris_wot wrote: post #72

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You really aught to look at Bryan Cantrill's twitter feed then. It happens frequently enough that he notices blog posts and tweets them.

Then again Cantrill has an axe to grind. In case others are wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill

I'm no fan of the man, but it doesn't mean that dtrace is not an excellent tool.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 3:32 AM UTC

roca wrote: post #95

chris_wot wrote: post #70

I've tried to use rr on LibreOffice but had no luck whatsoever. :(

Please file an rr issue. I've had it working in the past.

Just saw this - will do!

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by cyphar » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 5:04 AM UTC

gsnedders wrote: post #57

cyphar wrote: post #54

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DTrace doesn't languish. It just doesn't have a Linux port, because of people's contrived rewriting of the history of the GPL.

It does, it's part of Oracle Linux. Oracle obviously therefore believe that a CDDL kernel module is fine.

It wouldn't be distributed as a kernel module (DTrace probes are far more invasive than that). But yes, I posted this before I realised that Oracle Linux has sublicensed it under the GPL in their port to Linux (for their customers), so it's fine for us to do the same as long as we "base it on their port".

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by jwalden » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 4:45 PM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #78

jlebar wrote: post #74

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I think roc would give me a sly smile for pointing out that this doesn't really answer the "why". It's what he's going to do after he leaves. Doesn't quite answer why he's leaving.

He just wants to build a startup out of some cool tech and get rich. There's no conspiracy or dirty laundry here.

My, cynical much? Seems to me that 10+ years at a non-profit, and choosing to live in a place outside the traditional startup locations (New Zealand) with fewer networking opportunities, might indicate fairly little interest in that exact trajectory, for those exact reasons.

But what do I know, I'm just another ten-year Mozillian myself. And if or when I leave, it'll also surely be to get filthy rich at a startup, right?

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by BrendanEich » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

joshmoz wrote: post #15

I worked with Robert at Mozilla for many years. He might be the most talented software engineer I've ever met, and he's a strong candidate for nicest person as well. An absolute pleasure to work with. Mozilla will miss him dearly but some other project (apparently rr) just got really lucky.

rr is roc's baby ;-).