Musical chairs continues at Novell (DesktopLinux.com)
In the latest bit of personnel-related news from beleaguered Linux software/services provider Novell Inc., Nuremburg, Germany-based SUSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation Tuesday via email to friends and business associates on one of the SUSE mailing lists. Mantel, chief maintainer of the SUSE Linux kernel, simply said in the brief letter that he could no longer work for the company any longer."
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It was distressing because we hired all kind of new managers who started making desisions where we were used to having the final word. Also the product changes so you have to get new customers and a bunch of your old customers don't like it. Plus there a bunch of newbies to deal with and they have all kinds of overly optomistic novice advise to give...
I switched depts. It was a fun personal change for me and I was able to provide my own newbie advice to other people.
Now that all the visionary go out of suse, we have lost the best distribution around!Musical chairs continues at Novell (DesktopLinux.com)
All it really means is that Hubert is now free to go off and do something else interesting (or not, as he chooses).Visionaries, schmisionaries
I see parallels with Corel Corp. in what is going on at Novell.Musical chairs continues at Novell (DesktopLinux.com)
Must be something about Utah. Musical chairs continues at Novell (DesktopLinux.com)
Ugh. Novell appears to be destroying the structure behind one of the most proven Linux distribution around. This is a major setback for Linux as a whole.Musical chairs continues at Novell (DesktopLinux.com)
At one place where I worked we went from a small company to a medium sized company.Change at work are often unpleasant