Josef Bacik Leaving Meta and Stepping Back From Kernel Development
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Josef Bacik is leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development, sparking discussion about Meta's role in funding open source projects and the potential impact on the open source community.
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4 months ago
One of Meta's best qualities is spending a lot of money to fund talented people to work on open source. Shame that Anthropic doesn't seem like they want to continue that.
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