Facebook has just hired yet another well known Linux kernel engineer that previously worked for years at Red Hat before having a brief stint at another company earlier this year… The code monkey is now at Facebook beginning next month.
Facebook has hired several upstream Linux kernel developers over the years, including several Btrfs developers. Their latest hire in the kernel department is Dave Jones.
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