Jeremy Allison Resigns From Novell In Protest

walterbyrd writes to alert us to word from groklaw.net that Jeremy Allison has turned in his resignation at Novell. "The legendary Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' that will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future.' His main issue with the deal, though, is 'that even if it does not violate the letter of the license, it violates the intent of the GPL license the Samba code is released under, which is to treat all recipients of the code equally.' He leaves the company at the end of this month. He explained why in a message sent to several Novell email lists, and the message included his letter to management."

Comments

Re:Putting your money where your mouth is

[epiphani]

Agreed.

Now, lets make sure that he gets picked up quickly by someone else. If we can start saying without question that leaving Novell in protest of the patent deal will get you a few job offers off the bat will be quite good.

Keep these people employed!

Re:Putting your money where your mouth is

[Daemonstar]

I agree. Money is important, but being happy with your job is also important. Besides, I doubt he will have much trouble finding work.

I used to work for the local city government, but quit because of the way my co-workers (especially supervisors) did their job, the way they treated others around them, and because they gave little to no flexability in scheduling. By voicing my opinion and leaving, I later found out that it had inspired someone else there to leave for the same reasons. She found a better job and is much happer. Me, it took a while, but I finally found work. I really liked the position I had, but when you can't stand the way things are run, you have to do what you feel is right.

Re:Intent doesn't matter

[everphilski]

If your employees don't understand the license (Here's a hint: both Eben Moglen and RMS can't find anything wrong with the deal) then there is something wrong with the employees, not the employer.

Bad director

[PermanentMarker]

So you work for a company. And leave it for an excuse of your past company before novell... ????? Damn forget who is paying you ..... ? Wass your sallery to low .... ? Or ehm mentaly ill ... ? Well i hope he does resign himself, and wont perform a buyout for those novell employees. Resigning for poor reasons is bad behaviour and not liked by employees in general. Such people must better think if their bad-leadership is needed in the company who pays their sallery, well its good that he somehow knows he understand he should leave. Such leaders are overrated in a company, i've got no good words for it. (And Bill if you like a joke wel hire him for a good salery but give him an ugly terrible job whoehahahahah it would give a nice twist to this novel $$$ person )