On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:

> I certainly hope that you find your new position with a for profit
> corporation as stimulating and useful to society as the position that
> you are leaving -- the for-profit world is very different from the
> academic (except perhaps for that of the Rubbia-like worlds in nominally
> academic fields).
>
> One small question:  is there anyone else who knows the same material
> with respect to SL that you do?  That is, with you totally divorcing
> yourself from SL, have you built in programmer job security that will
> take a large amount of effort on the part of the remaining SL support
> team to re-invent?

Both Troy and myself have been co developers for many years.  Not much to 
re-invent .

-Connie Sieh

>
> Best wishes on your new career.
>
> Yasha Karant
>
> On 08/25/2011 05:52 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> On 08/24/2011 01:54 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>>> You still going to remain part of the mailing list? ;)
>>>
>>
>> I know you put a ;) after that, but I am still going to answer it.
>> The answer is no. Scientific Linux has been such a part of my life for
>> so long that I need to have a clean cut to separate myself from it. That
>> is the only way it would be fair to my new employer.
>> That would be true whoever my new employer is.
>> It is possible that sometime in the future I might join the SL lists
>> again and answer a question or two. But for now, I will not be on any SL
>> mailing lists after September 2.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone
>> Troy
>