[LanzVonL]

He did go away for a vacation-style treatment a few years ago after offending Intel. Like a re-education camp.

[rincebrain]

He did go away, yes, but that's not really related to the premise of people trying to convince him to merge a large wad of code undera license that is not GPLv2 and is not strictly less restrictive than GPLv2 into the Linux codebase.