PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

He can easily hop ship wherever he wants given the major impact he's landed in PulseAudio, Systemd and elsewhere. His design decisions have certainly been controversial but his impact is certainly agreed upon.

Re: PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

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Post by traverseda » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 6:31 PM UTC

alfalfasprout wrote: post #6

He can easily hop ship wherever he wants given the major impact he's landed in PulseAudio, Systemd and elsewhere. His design decisions have certainly been controversial but his impact is certainly agreed upon.

I think that Redhat gave him a privileged position to make that impact from, and I'm not sure that he'll make a similar impact without similar political backing, but I suppose time will tell.

Re: PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

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Post by humanwhosits » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 6:37 PM UTC

Interested to see what he chooses to work on now

Re: PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

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Post by shrubble » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

dane-pgp wrote: post #4

Maybe he'll go on to become an Executive Vice President at Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop

I was thinking about Rick Belluzzo's time at SGI when I read your comment.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo

Re: PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

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Post by tannhaeuser » Tue, Jul 05, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

humanwhosits wrote: post #8

Interested to see what he chooses to work on now

Maybe he's turning to the graphic stack (eg a grand unified graphics driver architecture), or redoes large parts of the kernel in Rust ;) Or something like that; I've got a hard time thinking what could be challenging enough seeing as, though controversial his creations are, he sure is able to deliver.