{"id":1970,"date":"2010-08-31T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:55:04","slug":"haxx-gets-linus-over-to-the-good-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/haxx-gets-linus-over-to-the-good-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Haxx gets Linus over to the good side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linus.haxx.se\/\">Linus Nielsen Feltzing<\/a> and I founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxx.se\/\">Haxx<\/a> a long time ago, so therefore it is extra fun to welcome him to join me and <a href=\"http:\/\/bjorn.haxx.se\/\">Bj\u00f6rn<\/a> to work full-time for our small but already now skill-packed company. Starting December this year, Linus will do all his consultancy and contract work wearing his Haxx hat and no other. Employee number three.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haxx.se\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/haxxlogo.png\" alt=\"Haxx\" class=\"wp-image-648\" title=\"Haxx\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He comes from an employment at the same consultant company I was employed by before (and Bj\u00f6rn was too a while ago). With this addition Haxx is now having <strong>three full-time consultants with more than 20 years of experience<\/strong> each within software development and embedded systems. We have a long and thorough experience in Linux and networks, in embedded and in larger systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bj\u00f6rn and I originally got to know Linus back in 1988 when we visited a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demoparty\">copy-party<\/a>&#8221; in Alvesta Sweden. There we (the C64 demo group named <a href=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/\">Horizon<\/a>) competed against the other teams in the demo competition. We won the competition with our demo &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/showdemo.cgi?action=pics&amp;demo=9937555406421\">Love This Now<\/a>&#8221; while the fellows in Microsystems Digital Technology (MDT) came at second place with their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kjell.haxx.se\/horizon\/showdemo.cgi?action=pics&amp;demo=9937555403927\">Bonanza<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MDT consisted of two persons, and one of them was Linus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Alvesta, Linus and J\u00f6rgen (the other MDT member) joined Horizon and we&#8217;ve known each other since. We&#8217;ve worked on the same companies since the late 90s something until the day last year when I started working full-time for Haxx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linus is a hardcore embedded developer, working close to hardware and the OS, writing primarily C and assembler code. He has worked a lot with various RTOSes and Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linus is also known as one of the founders of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox project<\/a> together with me and Bj\u00f6rn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Nielsen Feltzing and I founded Haxx a long time ago, so therefore it is extra fun to welcome him to join me and Bj\u00f6rn to work full-time for our small but already now skill-packed company. Starting December this year, Linus will do all his consultancy and contract work wearing his Haxx hat and no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/haxx-gets-linus-over-to-the-good-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haxx gets Linus over to the good side<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[322,276,429,323,416],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-rockbox","tag-bjorn","tag-c64","tag-haxx","tag-linus","tag-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28141,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/28141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}