On Monday 23 February 2009 23:29:37 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Martin Schlander
<martin.schlander@gmail.com> wrote:
But you should always look inwards as well. If there was some proper official communication done, maybe reporters and community members wouldn't have to speculate like crazy about what the hell is going on, and go through a prolonged and extremely painful process of learning about people we care about and enjoy working with have been fired - slowly and painfully one name at a time for a period of weeks and weeks.
While I agree we could have communicated more effectively, I do want to note a few things: Novell is a public company, and has some restrictions on what it can say (and when). In part, poor communication may be caused by an overabundance of caution -- rather than a desire to withhold information or a lack of desire to inform the community of what's going on.
Zonker, full agreement here. Martin, and others: Sorry for being silent on this publically. If you have specific questions, I'm willing to answer them as long as I don't violate privacy or legal policies. For now, let me just confirm that we're committed to the openSUSE project. Despite the layoffs, Novell will continue to invest in openSUSE and make together with the community a great project and distribution, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126