Open Source Development Labs make cut backs

An official statement said that OSDL has reduced its staff in sales, marketing, business development and programming. This makes nine out of 57 staff collecting their P45s and pink slips.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who works for the outfit, is still there but another senior Linux developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, reported in his blog that some "very talented and experienced Linux kernel developers and testers" were told to go.

He said that these were subsystem and driver maintainer level kernel people, who really understand the community and how to get stuff done in the kernel and have loads of experience.

Kroah-Hartman said they were just cut as part of a "budget reduction" restructure. "My rants about how OSDL is currently being run are best left for another time. "Center of gravity for Linux" my ass," he said.

There's more on this, here. µ