<story><title>Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku</title><url>http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Wow, nice move, guys!&lt;p&gt;One of the things I always admired about Linus is that he managed to stay &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; neutral amongst all the Linux vendors.  Back in the dot com days, he could have had pretty much anything he wanted from Redhat, VA Linux, Linuxcare, etc... etc.... but he managed to stay with Transmeta, and then go to the Linux Foundation, which is neutral territory.  That&apos;s allowed him to focus on Linux without having a Corporate Overlord, benign though it may be.</text></comment>
<story><title>Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku</title><url>http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/12/matz_joins_heroku/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>Interesting note:&lt;p&gt;With Rasmus Lerdorf working at WePay, this means the creators of the two most presently popular web programming languages, Ruby and PHP, are now working for YC companies.&lt;p&gt;(Which is a teency stretch since Heroku is now SalesForce and hence no longer really a YC company, but we&apos;ll count them to keep it interesting.)</text></comment>