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Roughly four years ago, XML co-inventor Tim Bray announced (in spectacular iPhone-hating fashion) that he had joined Google, mostly due to Android. He’s been serving as developer advocate.

Now, Bray has announced that he’s leaving the corporate effective March 17th, for a lot less interesting reasons. He simply doesn’t wish to move to California, and Google will not allow him to work remotely (he lives in Vancouver).

“I’ll miss the possibility to make use of the Google fulcrum which, applied intelligently, has enough leverage to go the total Internet,” he writes in a blog post. “Also, quite a lot of really cool people work there; I’ll miss them most. And the pay is sweet.”

He says he’s not mad on the company, and the separation is amicable. He says he doesn’t think Google is really evil (now that he could say so if he wanted), though he adds that he knows “all types of non-public information” that he’s promised to maintain non-public.

Bray doesn’t know what he’s going to do next.

“Beats me,” he writes. “Seriously, I haven’t figured that out. From a financial viewpoint i’ll just stop working, but that could be boring and unhealthy. In spite of this, spring’s almost here and summer’s across the corner, and I’d love to drink just a little deeper of both than I actually have in recent times.”

He’ll still be traveling to the imminent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and IETF 89 in London to speak about what Google’s doing with OpenID Connect.

Via blearyeyed, Hacker News

Image via Wikimedia Commons

XML Co-Inventor Tim Bray Is Leaving Google After Four Years February 20, 2014