Linux lab slashes staff as CEO walks

According to zdnet, the outfit's CEO Stuart Cohen resigned to chase gold in a higher-level open-source software company and nine technical and admin people have been given their P45s and pink slips.

The Labs board members have decided that now that Linux is mainstream most companies were doing much of the collaborative work OSDL was founded to oversee.

Mike Temple has assumed control of 19 staff which includes Tom Hanrahan in charge of engineering, Diane Peters in charge of legal work, and Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds.

The money saved by reducing the staff will go paying lawyers to manage some of the legal work the outfit needs to do.

In technical matters, the organisation will find where new software needs to be written, rather than look at Linux with a broad-brush strategy and try to get software penned for the lot.

Temple told ZDNet that Cohen's resignation as CEO was nothing to do with all this and would have happened anyway.