According to a posting on the Gentoo.org web site, Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins joined Microsoft on May 23 with a role to help the software giant understand Open Source and community-based projects.
Robbins founded Gentoo Linux in 1998 having created Portage, its package distribution, building, and installation system, designed to make the Linux distribution easily customizable and optimizable depending on a user’s hardware and software requirements.
Having led Gentoo’s development as chief architect, Robbins resigned from his development responsibilities in April 2004, although he agreed to stay on at the company as it transferred to a not-for-profit organization.
That evolution was completed with the creation of the Gentoo Foundation in June 2004. Before taking up his post at Microsoft, Robbins finalized the transfer of Gentoo intellectual property to the Gentoo Foundation.
