Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project [LWN.net]

Attachmate has released a brief statement about its plans for SUSE and openSUSE. ""The openSUSE project is an important part of the SUSE business," commented Jeff Hawn, chairman and CEO of Attachmate Corporation. "As noted in the agreement announced today, Attachmate plans to operate SUSE as a stand-alone business unit after the transaction closes. If this transaction closes, then after closing, Attachmate Corporation anticipates no change to the relationship between the SUSE business and the openSUSE project as a result of this transaction.""

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Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project

Posted Nov 24, 2010 14:18 UTC (Wed) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232) [Link]

Wow. I've always thought I might try SuSE some day, but my interest in running SuSE just evaporated.

Are you sure this is the same Jeff Hawn?

Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project

Posted Nov 24, 2010 15:01 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

This is not being sure, but the case has been on Wikipedia since September 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachmate#CEO_animal_cruelt...

Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project

Posted Nov 24, 2010 17:29 UTC (Wed) by ctg (subscriber, #3459) [Link]

Hmmm.. Not someone I would want to do business with, with ethics/morals like that.

Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project

Posted Nov 24, 2010 15:47 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

I stopped using it and switched to Ubuntu Studio because of its support for musicians. I can only hope you folks are wrong. You know---hope for the best, expect the worst.....

Attachmate Corporation Statement on openSUSE project

Posted Nov 25, 2010 21:22 UTC (Thu) by jebba (✭ supporter ✭, #4439) [Link]

"Software CEO gets 10 days in jail for bison slaying"
...
"Hawn is CEO of Seattle-based Attachmate Corp."

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=1086...
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_11572535?obref=obinsite