Suse co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company in 2004. Mantel announced the move on a Suse Linux mailing list Tuesday, and Novell confirmed the move Wednesday. "I just decided to leave Suse/Novell. This is not (any) longer the company I founded 13 years ago," Mantel said in the e-mail. "I have been the maintainer of the Suse kernel for more than a decade now. I'm very confident the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly."
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Member since:Uh, this is absolutely not a case of a company getting acquired and falling apart as a result. Novell acquired SUSE ages ago, for all intents and purposes, and only after several months worth of resounding successes are these problems arising. Novell has attracted numerous governments and companies to SUSE (http://www.novell.com/linux/whynovell/speakout.html), open sourced YaST, opened SUSE as a whole (by creating openSUSE), and put a legion of developers behind the community. The recent layoffs, abandonment of KDE (though that phrasing may be a tad melodramatic), and resignations truly are surprising and dissapointing.
Member since:I dont know how much truth there is to this, but I have heard that many of the old Suse players feel like they are no longer calling the shots and setting the direction that made them the successful OS company they are today. There is also a perception that IBM is influencing so many things at Suse that they might as well buy them out.
In any case, I hope they pull through these seemingly uncertain times..
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Uh, this is absolutely not a case of a company getting acquired and falling apart as a result. Novell acquired SUSE ages ago, for all intents and purposes, and only after several months worth of resounding successes are these problems arising. Novell has attracted numerous governments and companies to SUSE (http://www.novell.com/linux/whynovell/speakout.html), open sourced YaST, opened SUSE as a whole (by creating openSUSE), and put a legion of developers behind the community. The recent layoffs, abandonment of KDE (though that phrasing may be a tad melodramatic), and resignations truly are surprising and dissapointing.
Yeah, and if you would please turn your sarcasm detector up 2 or 3 notches, you would realize that is not the point I was trying to make 
Unless you didn't mean to reply to me.
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I finally migrate from Debian to SUSE and all hell breaks loose with that company... insane!
I KNOW!!! I mean, a company gets aquired and the founders of the company leave. THAT NEVER HAPPENS UNLESS SOMETHING IS UP!!! Oh...wait, it happens all the time, even if the company doesn't get aquired. Red Hat's co-founder left the other week to start a new company.
Explain how this is significant please?