In a stunning announcement, LinuxPPC co-founder Jason Haas has announced that he is resigning from LinuxPPC Inc. The company makes a popular Linux distribution for Apple Power Macintosh and other PowerPC-based computers. Haas first came on board as the company's marketing director. His duties expanded to include webmaster, documentation writer, news editor, and head of media relations and customer service. Haas' favorite title, however, was "Unnamed Source." An unnamed source at the company said that Haas would be retaining that title. Why He is Leaving Haas explained that he was burned out. "Three or four years of trying to do as much as humanly possible will do that to you," he noted. "The wreck I was in last year also has forced me to reevaluate a lot of things in my life. It's time for me to move on." Haas is satisfied with the spread of LinuxPPC that he helped achieve. "LinuxPPC is being used everywhere, from high-level government labs to a local technical college's art department. Every time you use a TiVo, you're using a not-too-distant relative of LinuxPPC. LinuxPPC is everywhere." He went on in some detail about LinuxPPC's accomplishments. "As much as Linux distributions are becoming a commodity, it is very important to have innovation happening in the Linux distribution world. I'm quite proud of what LinuxPPC did in that regard. We were the first version of Linux for the PowerPC with BootX, bootable CD-ROMs, and a graphical installer and graphical partitioning program. A graphical version of the yaboot and miboot utilities is the latest development. Four major innovations is quite a record to have." That said, Haas is retiring from the computer world. He revealed some of his plans, saying "I'm going to do this nutty thing I hear the kids are doing: I'm going to college. I never finished college. Things are aligning themselves in a manner that says it's time to do that." Beyond that? "Only the future knows," said Haas. "Right now, I'm going on vacation. My wife and I never got a honeymoon, if you can believe that. We're finally having one," he said with a grin. Haas went on to say, "I would like to extend heartfelt thanks to everyone who wrote an e-mail, card, or letter to myself and my wife Cassandra last year after that drunk idiot tried to kill me. Your support made a big difference in my recovery, so, thank you. You also donated several hundred dollars to Mothers Against Drunk Driving in recognition of what happened to me. Thank you for that!" "Rather than end this on a stirring, sentimental note, I will leave you with a very important mission for you to undertake: have fun." Haas was not available for further comment. A copy of this announcement is available at http://linuxppc.org/home/jhaas/ ###