Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Lonn Dugan" <lonn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sid,

You tell it well.

Lonn C. Dugan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sid Boyce [mailto:sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 20:27
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [SLE] ...and speaking of SuSE / Novell...
>
>
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:23 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> >
> >> Sounds more like desertion in the face of the DMCA enemy?
> >>
> >> At this point it seems like a situation likely to create a
> fork of Suse.
> > That's a possibility, but I'm sure that he has a non-compete contract.
> > It is not unusual for a former founder to stick around for a
> few years after
> > acquisition then leave. Hubert Mantel may just be uncomfortable in a
> > corporate environment.
> >
>
> OpenSource software and a non-compete clause in a contract .... I doubt
> the ire it would raise in its invocation would be worth it. Most of the
> Corporates sell glitter with the idea of making lots of money while the
> guys setting up the company in the first place made the best darn
> products and lots of money, typically the Corporation comes up with
> something that is not up to the old standard and makes much less and
> less money. I worked for such a company and saw it go from fame and
> riches to insignificance in less than a decade.
> Eventually the (mentally) short men on stilts self-delude themselves
> they are giants and when they start to wobble there is nothing left
> worth saving.
> Regards
> Sid.
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