On Wednesday 20 December 2006 13:30, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:26, Peter Van Lone wrote:
http://www.datamanager.it/articoli.php?idricercato=17639
fyi ...
Interesting that it was carried on an Itialian website. In any case, does this mean much to the average developer or is it more the case of "good feelings" and goodwill towards the SUSE community? -- kai
Doesn't sound like he burned any bridges when he left because he's been back since December 1, 2006. Doesn't say whether Novell/SUSE was pressuring him to return but in what I consider a very smart move they did re-hire him. Other articles say he is the team leader for kernel quality and already has a full workload. Notice the total lack of marketing from Novell/SUSE on this. In the article he states he was burnt-out and the year off did him a world of good. Now he is coming back to the distribution he helped start because its what-he-wants-to-do-for-a-job and really likes to do it. He even says the Novell/Microsoft thing is no big deal to him. From the article: "Fundamentalism always leads to pain. What's important is that Linux is free and will remain to be free," Mantel said. I believe that Hubert Mantel is highly respected as a coder and as an opensource software and GPL supporter. How can this not be good for you, me, openSUSE and any opensource/Linux/GPL developer? Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org