Comments on: Alan Cox leaves Red Hat, suggesting company's future direction

When a super-geek leaves Red Hat's engineering team, it makes you wonder what the company is working on that could be more important than retaining such a key employee.

[Penguinisto]

Wow... good to see AC digging down into the metal.

[Matt Asay]

yes, though the ironic thing is that five years ago he was talking about working on the desktop. I guess we always gravitate to out true interests in the end. He's twice the rock star on the low-level code than he'd be higher up the stack. He'll be great for Intel, just as he was for Red Hat.

[MSSlayer]

Working on desktop and web stuff is simple, hence boring.

Working at the hardware/software interface is interesting, and challenging.

[sidboyce]

I was always curious about the reasons why Alan was so deeply ensconced with RedHat knowing his love of hardware/software development going back to the early days hacking Linux based stuff for hardware he developed especially for Amateur Radio.