Post-Novell Interview With Jeremy Allison

schestowitz notes an interview with Jeremy Allison, of Samba fame, after he had left Novell in protest over the company's deal with Microsoft. From the interview: "My guess is that the negotiations for the useful parts of the agreement (the virtualization part and the federated directory interoperability part) had, as Ron [Hovsepian] says, been going on for months and just before Novell wanted to seal the deal Microsoft turned up with 'there's just this one more thing we want you to sign...' and in desperation to get the other parts of the deal done they rushed it through."

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Re:Why the Rush?

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

Note that Ron in the interview doesn't say *when* the Microsoft
request that :

"Their desire to do some things around
IP [intellectual property] came up"

happened. I believe that this request came at the end of
the negotiations, not at the start. I can't prove that,
but but the timing of things makes sense from what happened.

Jeremy.