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I worked with Roger Gregory for a few weeks in 1999, 4 years after this article was written. He still hadn't recovered from Xanadu. I got the impression that he
by davidmathers 17y ago
I worked with Roger Gregory for a few weeks in 1999, 4 years after this article was written. He still hadn't recovered from Xanadu. I got the impression that he never really would.
- evgen 17y agoHeh. I worked for a startup that had three ex-Xanadu refugees. Never, ever work for a company that has more than one; once they reach critical mass you are doomed. Favorite memory from said startup was the PERT charts for "the big picture" used the color purple to denote items that "would make a good Ph.D thesis if you know anyone at Stanford or Berkeley looking for a topic..."
- davidw 17y agoThat must have been at Linuxcare... I was there too and have a few memories of him.
- davidmathers 17y agoYes. My project there was to build the linuxcare.com website in the 3 weeks between the day they got funded and the first LinuxWorld Expo. Roger worked on the website with me. I remember being introduced to you in the hallway one day, but I don't think I saw you again after that.
- davidw 17y agoYeah, I started sometime after the LinuxWorld Expo. Roger later got let go by the guy they brought in to be a 'CTO' sort of guy, Sal Meola (who was in turn let go, and subsequently replaced by the infamous Doug Nassaur: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4883&cid=1142578 http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4883&cid=11425... )
- davidmathers 17y agoHaha, I couldn't remember why I didn't take a job there. Thanks for reminding me. After I met Sal Meola I said to David Sifry: "wtf?" David assured me that he was someone who "got things done", but I really couldn't bear the thought of working with him.
- davidw 17y agoHe wasn't great, but Doug... shudder. If Sal was perhaps not the right guy for the job, Doug inspired outright loathing in people.