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- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Only a short time after Ted Haeger and Walter Knapp resigned...
It has become clear who gained from the Novell/Microsoft deal. - HerbertScrunge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I don't know for sure if this is him, but:
"The MSFT/NOVL agreement was not the motivation behind my departure.
I appreciate the postings by those who recognize that the speculation behind my departure is ill-founded and inappropriate."
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233523&cid=18998323 - ahuxley, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Remember, a Developers's strength flows from the Code.
But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The MS side are they. Once you start down the MS path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Robert... Robert... do not... do not underestimate the powers of the Balmer or suffer your Co-Workers's fate you will.
Robert, when reassigned am I... the last of the Developers will you be.
Robert, the Code runs strong in you.
Pass on what you have learned, Robert. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I was surprised Dell didn't choose it."
They were probably scared away by the MS/Novell situation. - diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7grammar != spelling
(word usage nazi) - CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@deadbaby (2nd comment):
They aren't really. I'd say Microsoft needs Dell more than the other way round. A lot of people simply go to Dell (or HP, or PC World [UK store], or [[insert name of tech company here]]) to buy 'a computer'. The company's website/store rep says that 'this computer is good, it has X, Y and Z, and it only costs A dollars/pounds/euros', so the person buys it.
Dell could probably switch all of its consumer machines to Ubuntu, not tell anyone, and most of its customers wouldn't even notice. Not that they're stupid or anything - they just don't care what technology a computer uses so long as it does what they want it to do - email, word processing, and web surfing. When you buy a toaster, you don't care what type of toasting mechanism it uses, you just care how good it is at making toast. Most people are the same way with computers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11hmm bury me.
- Shadowman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7SLED is great. I use it on my laptop. It's the most polished Linux desktop I have ever used, including Ubuntu. I was surprised Dell didn't choose it. HP may though, they already certify some of their hardware for it.
Maybe Love will go to Red Hat. - demonsofgoetia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Direct link to entry:
http://rlove.org/log/2007050401.html
Related:
"Robert Love Resigns from Novell"
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/04/2147259.shtml - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wonder if Nat Friedman is next.
Hrm. As cute as Nat may be, he does seem like Novell's bitch. - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That is his slashdot user and has been for some time ( http://slashdot.org/~sagei http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29858&cid=3206789 )
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wonder how long it will take them to ports SUSE over to NT6 platform??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6ALLOWED
AFFECT
RETARD!!!
(grammar nazi) - ss1958, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6SLED is really great, and I think it would be giving Ubuntu more of a run for its money if it weren't for political issues. It's politics and the lack of apt that keep me from running it.
I hope Love gets a job where he can work on a community distro. I don't know how the management cultures would mesh, and so I don't know if its even possible for him to do the same thing for Ubuntu that he did for Novell. But if that were possible, and Canonical hired him, it would be a really positive thing for Ubuntu. - locnguyen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"""Well I hope their departure is for legitimate reasons and not some "I hate "M$" and I'll rather die at the hand of a Nazi than work together with them" attitude.
Purist can be the worst team players."""
You realise that the guy is an adult, right?
I'd explain how the community relations issues Novell has created are not "we hate Microsoft", but we both know that. - mynameiscal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What's Love got to do with it?
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Erm... the most popular consumer distro is Ubuntu. The most popular enterprise distro is Red Hat. So how was Novell Linux's 'one chance'?
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's pretty clear that Novell pissed away a tremendous opportunity by becoming the patent FUD bitch to Microsoft. Excellent product, from a floating turd of a company.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Of course they are... that's why they're interested in offering Linux. As it stands Dell is Microsoft's bitch.
- digitalarcanum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does anyone else have nightmares about eDirectory?
- nfvs, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2I hate to crash the party here, but...
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233523&cid=18998323 - nfvs, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Cut the guy some slack.
(Anti-nazi nazi) - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1let's not forget the wonderful desktop improvements that came from Novell
anyone here using compiz or the spin-off, soon to merge back into compiz, beryl?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reveman
http://lwn.net/Articles/229690/ - sukimashita, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, Dell sure is scared by their own Partner...
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2More like the other way around.
- BryanUT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The Reverend Ted?
I am still glad I was laid off from that hell hole in Provo. - nfvs, on 08/30/2008, -4/+1hmm mod me up.
- crash128, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Try not, do. Do! Or do not. There is no try. (yoda is currently available as a chia pet).
- MajorMauser, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1The one chance Linux had was Novell... and it has ended hahahah aahhahhah h
- flag564, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4Well I hope their departure is for legitimate reasons and not some "I hate "M$" and I'll rather die at the hand of a Nazi than work together with them" attitude.
Purist can be the worst team players. - DontEatTheFish, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2ok, so after Novell made the deal with Microsoft, they were not aloud to use the Linux kernel anymore. so this doesn't effect too much
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+0who the f*ck cares
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