Vihan Pandey wrote:
/me ponders conspiracies
not really.. theres is some confusion. lets do it once again ;-)
This link "http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924011302.html" that you sent talks about Robert Love.. on this page you'll find this statement "It is true that one prominent open-source developer, Samba programmer Jeremy Allison, did leave Novell over the Microsoft/Novell patent partnership and was subsequently hired by Google. However, in a brief email exchange with DesktopLinux, *Love* wrote that he was not leaving Novell because of the Microsoft/Novell patent deal." (extra emphasis on Love added by me).
Very True.
While "Jeremy" publicly states his reason for leaving novell.. Robert
has been quoted by "DesktopLinux" as *not* leaving novell because of the deal. So "Robert" is the horse that we want to neigh.. the above redherring link is where "Jeremy" is the horse.
Total Agreement.
From the horses mouth: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233523&cid=18998323
Here is some food for thought on the Novell-MS deal.. may be biased. http://en.opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS