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Robert Love Resigns from Novell

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the moving-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Robert Love who was the Chief Architect of Novell's Linux Desktop has resigned today. Robert is a prominent Linux kernel hacker, author and journalist in the Linux community. His blog doesn't specify why he resigned, but after colleague and friend Jeremy Allison's departure from Novell in protest of the Microsoft-Novell deal, this might be the latest fallout from it."

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  1. It could have been Mormonism by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sooner or later, a career at Novell will require a stint at the Provo, Utah headquarters. Perhaps he did not want to reside or raise a family deep within the heartland of Mormonism.

  2. That name rings a bell... by dinther · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Novell, mmmm I am sure I have heard of that name before. Novell, wasn't that an old gift store franchise? No...ummmm

    I give up, it must be insignificant.

  3. Re:Speculation, false. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well that makes me sad, because you *should* have left for that reason.

    And please don't try to claim you deveoped the best desktop distro at Novell, that title clearly belongs to Ubuntu [ http://distrowatch.com/ ]. Sure you developed technology, but linux isn't just about technology, it's about community. And Novell has burned its bridges and doesn't have a real community, it's just a soulless corporate entity. Just look at the reception de Icaza got when he pops a boner about Silverlight [ http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/03/2033219.s html ]. The only people who speak highly about Mono are people who come from windows, they just speak highly because they didn't have to lose their skill set and re-train. Nobody starts on true unix-style tools and with linux and then moves *to* Mono, for good reason.

    I thank you for your contributions to open source, paid and otherwise, but don't pretend Novell-MSFT is a good idea, that you were the best distro, or that anyone should care about Mono and the rest of the clusterfuck that is Novell.

  4. Re:Speculation is natural, but fruitless by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Suppose his reasons are none of our business, and he never shares. What use is it to speculate (other than my speculation that the anonymous story submitter wanted to kick the Novell pariah yet again)?
    Well, the problem has not gone away. Can you state a better case regarding why it should be off-limits to raise it again?

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.