On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:04:27PM -0500, 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.
That probably could be the case. A lot of people who founded Linux companies aren't corporate people at heart. I just hope it wasn't something that drove him away becase he didn't like where he was or something of that nature. wherever he is I wish him the best. Sucks he's gone, the people who founded it should have been the people who stayed. I'm not a business guy, I understand how to MAKE a business work, but I don't know how one is normally ran, but if I was CEO of Novell, I would have made the founders of SUSE the heads of SUSE as if it had never been bought. I'd make them mini CEOs. And of course I'd give the security team a raise. They are cool guys and deserve it anyway. If I had to cut down on staff I'd go after management. they generally make more money (Take more cash to keep there) and generally do the least important work. -Allen
-- Jerry Feldman
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