Former Linux Architect Moves to Microsoft

A little late on this one, but as you have probably heard, Dan Robbins has been hired by Microsoft.  One has to wonder if he is a bit bitter.  He founded Gentoo and was forced to quite about a year ago for financial reasons.  He graciously transfered absolutely everything to a non-profit that he created.  The fact that he poured time, energy, blood/sweat/tears and a whole bunch of money into something that he couldn't make work had to hurt a bit.  I pour much of the same into LQ and can testify to the fact that making a project financially viable while sticking to your original goals is extremely difficult.  Luckily (or maybe nothing to do with luck, I dunno) we have been able to survive so far.  Danny is clearly a smart guy that contributed a ton to the community.  Surely he'll be missed.  I wish him the best wherever he goes (including MSFT), but one does have to wonder how is could have been different.  If I have time at some point I'd really like to look into why he wasn't able to make things work.  I'd guess there are some valuable lessons there.  On a side note, Scoble is having an interesting back and forth discussion about why one would or would not want to work at Microsoft.
--jeremy