Sid, You tell it well. Lonn C. Dugan
-----Original Message----- From: Sid Boyce [mailto:sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 20:27 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com 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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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