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I can't say that I'm happy about the way things turned out. BRU-Pro was my life for over a year, and it doesn't make me feel good to know that its source code is being bought out by a competitor to bury it. While that is flattering in a way -- that they thought my baby had enough legs on it that it was a threat to their business -- I wouldn't complain if people nagged the eventual buyer to release it as Open Source. Heck, I'd even contribute to the Open Source project. It would be ironic if the eventual buyer ended up losing more business over not releasing BRU-Pro as Open Source than they would have lost by competing against BRU-Pro. BTW, anybody who knows anything about tape backup in the Linux marketplace knows who EST's direct competitor and most bitter rival was, and thus who is 99.99999% certain to be the one bidding for the software to bury it. For more in that vein, see Richard Fish's site, www.fishcode.org. Also check out Randy's resume. Both Richard and Randy are two of the best programmers that I've ever served with, and both deserve your consideration as a potential employee.

On the plus side, I'm back at ground level with another cool group of people, and I get to learn about a lot of new stuff. I also get to modify mtx to work with 2000-side double-sided optical jukeboxes -- cool!