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Rob Hooft
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Rob Hooft : Übersicht
07-Dec-2001/09-Jan-07
Übersicht
 In
typical open-source development fashion, Rob Hooft began hacking on
Linux ``because I could''. There were limitations to the 0.95c++ kernel
(the first one he installed at home). Rob says, ``0.95c++ was only 200KB
in .Z form'' and it did hang on his home machine. So, he jumped into the
kernel in order to understand the driver and implement modifications.
This was how Rob became a Linux contributor.
I improved the OPL3 sound code in the kernel sound driver; changed the
floppy formatting routines to use sector shifting; and helped develop
some shared libraries.
Linux had little in the way of libraries then, but as we all know, Linux
development grew because of what wasn't there.
When Rob first encountered Linux, he was at a UNIX users group meeting
of the Dutch Hobby Club. Linux was the only true free UNIX. Ignoring the
limitations, he ``decided that Linux was what I had been waiting for,
and I bought a computer (my first x86 after a Z80) specifically to run
it.'' He had a lot of faith, seeing that Linux was equipped with ``only
64 processes, with 64MB virtual address space each; only four partitions
on a hard disk (maximum 64MB each); init/getty/login (IGL) were barely
completed; and no X.'' One of the true wonders of the Linux world comes
from the belief early developers had in the potential of Linux.
Rob is now a programmer for Nonius BV, which makes ``machines that are
used for crystal structure analysis. The control software is written
almost completely in Python on a Linux machine, using Tcl/Tk GUI.'' He
is using only free software to create a commercial application. Rob made
the shift from academia to industry because of his wife and son, and a
little thing called job security. Not surprisingly, he doesn't have a
problem with, as he puts it, ``smart brains getting rich, even if
they're not programmers.''
Though he writes commercial software, Rob tries to make certain modules
freely available, but
only if they are generally applicable. If I make the whole lot open
source, the only one studying it would be our competitors. My
competitors are not feeding my family.
Fair enough. Rob Hooft can be reached at
rob@hooft.net.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4037.
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