Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Nov 2005 23:17 UTC, submitted by Josh
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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2005-11-05
Novell's mistake was staying with 2 desktop platforms for to long(as observed by many readers here), this was inevitable when Novell bought Ximian and Ximian's leadership was elevated to key postions.
Actually, it could be argued that what happened was that Novell left SUSE's German core well alone for a couple of years for fear of an explosion if they tampered with it. Eventually they had to tamper with it and the result is, yes, an explosion. However, if I were an investor in Novell, I might be asking why they seem to prefer lightweight style victims from the Ximian stable to seasoned professionals from the SUSE one.
One of the benefits of the LinuxWorld is that you can always find another distro, the downside is when you pick a distro, they may disappear forcing you to change to another distro and then another. But as a Linux user, you have accepted that fate, so stop complaining about having to change distros.
We aren't talking about changing distros so much as the threat of a significant loss of quality from one of the leading distros. Were that to happen, Red Hat would have an almost monopoly-sized run at Linux in the enterprise, which wouldn't really be very good news. As for changing distros - well, just change to Debian and you'll never have to worry about changing again.