Vihan Pandey wrote:
To set the record straight Jeremy Allison DID leave Novell because of the M$-Novell deal and not because of a better job opportunity :
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710
This IS an important point and MUST be mentioned.
the same goes for Robert Love as well.
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."
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.