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: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.