[davidw]

Wow, nice move, guys!

One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay very neutral amongst all the Linux vendors. Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory. That's allowed him to focus on Linux without having a Corporate Overlord, benign though it may be.

[jshen]

I've always dreamed of a world with more things like the Linux Foundation. I'd love to see a Ruby foundation or something like that

[judofyr]

Ruby Central? http://rubycentral.org/

[jshen]

Wow, why didn't I know about that already! Anyone know if they have plans to fund developers?

[beaumartinez]

Like the Python Software Foundation?

[davidw]

One of the problems with open source software is that it can be very difficult to capture some of the value that people get from it, and cycle it back to the creators/workers of some project. Except, of course, for code contributions, but you can't pay the rent with those.

[allantyoung]

Be the change you'd like to see.

[truncs]

He did receive stock options from them

[davidw]

Oh yes, he received oodles of options and all kinds of perks. However, he never went to work for any of them, despite all the plying and feting.