Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 17:50 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
In a change of heart, Novell has ceased distributing proprietary software modules such as 3D video drivers that plug into the Linux kernel. The change came with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10, released in July. With the move, Novell is aligning itself with the Free Software Foundation, which shuns proprietary software in general but in particular loathes proprietary modules that run as a component of the open-source Linux kernel.
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2005-11-05
Nat Friedman, Miguel de icaza, and Federico Mena Quintero. These are threee of the FOUNDING fathers of gnome. Thats right, the guys that started gnome... Nat and Miguel started a company named Ximian way back when QT was *unfree* and they wanted an open source desktop environment. Robert Love has repeatedly shown his insane Linux kernel prowess. He is the guy that came up with "Project Utopia" aka HAL, DBUS, inotify, hotplug, etc... without him, removable hardware would likely still suck in Linux. These are 4 absolutely brilliant developers.
For a company wanting to put Linux on the Desktop, purchasing Ximian was the most intelligent thing Novell could have ever done. Take a look at these guys blogs to see what they are doing, it's good stuff:
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news.html
http://rlove.org/
http://nat.org/
http://tirania.org/blog/