Argh, it is horrible when you have to explain jokes. Matthew Garrett (mjg59 on HN) is a well known Linux developer. [1] He has a real talent for discovering an

Argh, it is horrible when you have to explain jokes. Matthew Garrett (mjg59 on HN) is a well known Linux developer. [1] He has a real talent for discovering and fixing weird, _weird_, problems with hardware firmwares, especially issues related to ACPI and UEFI. Have a look at his Linux.conf.au 2014 talk [2] to understand the kind of weirdness we are talking about (You will want to cry and laugh at the same time). Before becoming a kernel hacker, Matthew Garrett earned a PhD in genetics studying fruit flies. Now this project is very cool, both from the programming point of view and from the fruit fly point of view. Hence the fear that Garrett may abandon his spectacular work on the Linux kernel to go back to his original academic interests. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Garrett [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9c7aCZqtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9c7aCZqtU