Kai Ponte wrote:
Mantel said in a brief letter, sent to recipients in a Suse mailing list, that he could no longer work for the company, which acquired Suse in January 2004.
"Too late for me. I just decided to leave Suse/Novell," Mantel wrote. "This is no longer the company I founded 13 years ago."
A Novell spokeswoman confirmed Mantel’s resignation but gave no further details. “We can confirm that Hubert Mantel has tendered his resignation to Novell. However, this departure does not impact Novell's Linux strategy or our ability to execute on that strategy,” she said in an e-mailed statement.
You forgot to cite an interesting citation from Mantel: "I have been the maintainer of the Suse kernel for more than a decade now," Mantel wrote. "I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly. After all, there are lots of extremely skilled people over there in the Ximian division." http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173600703 Well, how many kernel developers are at Ximian, besides Robert Love? `lots of'? Seems like Mantel felt that Ximian tries to take over SUSE and succeeds in it. Looking at the technical track of Ximian compared to SUSE, this is no good news. I think this will re-open the discussions of GNOME and KDE on this list... ;-) (I don't use either of them, so I'm unpartial to that discussion. But I'm not unpartial if there is infighting at Novell, with the Ximian folks pushing good SUSE engineers out of the door.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany