Miguel... [LWN.net]

Miguel...

Posted Nov 8, 2006 2:43 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Miguel... by BrucePerens
Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft

Miguel said himself in his blog that he had absolutely no dealings with this at all. They didn't tell him what was going on anymore then they told any of the other Linux developers. I don't know about all of them, but the linux developers working for Novell that commented about this on their blogs stated the same thing and it was that they weren't told about the deal until a few days before Novell was planning on announcing it.

I am pretty sure that this is purely upper management move and didn't involve any Linux developers.

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Miguel...

Posted Nov 8, 2006 6:22 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Aren't both Nat and Miguel vice presidents now? That makes them upper management! I believe them if they say they didn't know ahead of time but why wouldn't they be consulted before making this high-profile deal?

Miguel...

Posted Nov 8, 2006 9:15 UTC (Wed) by jhellan (subscriber, #17103) [Link]

> Aren't both Nat and Miguel vice presidents now? That makes them upper
> management!

Not at all. I mean, they very well could be, but you can't tell from the title. You put 'vice president' on people's business cards to impress and get access to people outside your company.

Miguel...

Posted Nov 8, 2006 6:56 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Miguel said himself in his blog that he had absolutely no dealings with this at all.

Yes. But there was no time at which Miguel should ever have thought that deriving substantially from a Microsoft design in a product which he intended to integrate into GNOME was a good idea. Fortunately, most GNOME developers were smarter than Miguel about this, and stayed away from Mono.

At least this has finally driven Sun to GPL Java as a play against C# and Mono.

Bruce