Another Novell employee leaves
This marks my 261st blog entry as a Novell employee. It shall also mark my last. An operose decision, I resigned as Chief Architect of our Linux Desktop endeavor, effective today.
In the house that Ximian built, we dreamt and saw to fruition the world's finest Linux desktop, Linux's first desktop commercial success. Seated at the table aside some of the industry's sharpest hackers, we challenged ourselves not with the goal of building another Linux desktop, but with the aim of engineering a more perfect desktop—Linux or otherwise. Unsatisfied with simply cheaper, we went for broke: better and faster, too. SLED's éclat is ours.
Leaving is never easy. But here and now the timing is right and so, after three and a half years, here's to what's next.
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Why the heck does
Why the heck does tuxmachines announce every single Novell employee departure? Especially with 'Another Novell employee leaves'? His decision to leave (like 99.99% of all others in the company) is completely unrelated to any FUD. Believe it or not, people do change jobs for uncontroversial reasons. Novell is an incredibly large company.
apokryphos, You're an idiot.
apokryphos,
You're an idiot. It's not "just another Novell employee", because it's not a janitor that's leaving, it's the Chief Architect of Linux Desktop.
So it does matter. And yes, Novell will be the death for SuSE Linux in the long run.
No, the obvious point is
No, the obvious point is that it's not in any way related to the Microsoft-Novell deal, and that secondly, yes, he is another employee. How exactly do you think big companies work? You really think one person stays in the same position for decades?
You think Novell are on-the-whole losing engineers? You couldn't be more wrong. You just don't hear about all the new hirings.
You think SUSE Linux will 'die'? Have you completely ignored how successful SLED and SLES is becoming in the enterprise?
There have been many
There have been many departure at a fairly high level. Several of them (if not all) were in protest of the deal. That speaks volumes.
This is completely false.
This is completely false. This departure, like the MAJORITY of the others (honestly, please do your research), are because of very basic shifts in employment/jobs for people. They're only popularised because people want to jump on the troll-waggon after every change in Novell.
Hmmm...
You seem to be right, I'll admit.
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/04/robert-love-departure/#comment-590
Robert Love - Prologue: Google!
I am jubilant to announce that I have accepted an offer of employment from Google, a public corporation specializing in search, advertising, and unabated innovation.
Joining the staff of the Open Source Program Office, purveyors of such wonderful offerings as the Summer of Code, I shall remain in Boston.
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