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Open Source Advocate VP Chris Stone Leaves Novell
SafeTinspector writes "ComputerWorld has a story regarding the sudden departure of Chris Stone, a respected open source advocate and the man often sited as the architect behind Novell's acquisistion of Ximian and SUSE as well as the recent open source orientation of Novell.
At the same time, Novell has a web site dedicated to dispelling the mistruths propogated in Microsoft's 'Get the Facts' campaign. What does all this mean to the future of Novell's Linux and Open Source strategy? Does any of this relate to the imminent release of Open Enterprise Server? Anybody?"
At the same time, Novell has a web site dedicated to dispelling the mistruths propogated in Microsoft's 'Get the Facts' campaign. What does all this mean to the future of Novell's Linux and Open Source strategy? Does any of this relate to the imminent release of Open Enterprise Server? Anybody?"
Good point. When Netscape Confusicator was released as OSS, it diddnt so much as compile. As you say, too much cross-licensed code ripped out. And, I suspect, the build enviroment was weird enough that that was a major hurdle.
But the community at large was highly motivated to build a better browser, and Netscape had staff working on it too. Some of those staff members, JWZ with xemacs and xscreensaver, had experience with OSS projects.
Is the same true of Microsoft? If they wanted to, and if they activly persued it, could they create a community around an OSS Windows, and get more back they they put out? (lets be honest, that is the reason any company, "good" or "evil" by any definition, releases stuff as OSS) Interesting question.