Vihan Pandey wrote:
FTFL, "It is true that one prominent open-source developer, Samba programmer Jeremy Allison, did leave Novell over the Microsoft/Novell patent partnership and was subsequently hired by Google. However, in a brief email exchange with DesktopLinux, Love wrote that he was not leaving Novell because of the Microsoft/Novell patent deal."
Hmm....
However, until we hear from the horse's mouth/blog truth can't be
established. I'll also mirror Jeremy's sentiments that Suse/OpenSuse is a very fine and advanced distro and deserves a lot better than novell as its parent company.
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=20528&hed=Exit+Interview%3A+Why...
i believe the horse has spoken.... err i mean neighed :D
then again it IS interesting there are two sets of contradicting quotes on this online.
/me ponders conspiracies
not really.. theres is some confusion. lets do it once again ;-)
This link "http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924011302.html" that you sent talks about Robert Love.. on this page you'll find this statement "It is true that one prominent open-source developer, Samba programmer Jeremy Allison, did leave Novell over the Microsoft/Novell patent partnership and was subsequently hired by Google. However, in a brief email exchange with DesktopLinux, *Love* wrote that he was not leaving Novell because of the Microsoft/Novell patent deal." (extra emphasis on Love added by me).
While "Jeremy" publicly states his reason for leaving novell.. Robert has been quoted by "DesktopLinux" as *not* leaving novell because of the deal. So "Robert" is the horse that we want to neigh.. the above redherring link is where "Jeremy" is the horse.
Somehow, i seem to type horse as horde (the php framework) by default.. /me needs a vacation.