Did you know that Jeremy Allison resigned from Novell in protest against that stupid deal. And more recently Robert Love? Aha you did not. Your head was deeper in the sand.
Yes. He got good job at Google. My head is still up.
To set the record straight Jeremy Allison DID leave Novell because of the M$-Novell deal and not because of a better job opportunity :
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710
This IS an important point and MUST be mentioned.
I agree that 'stupid deal' was really wrong and against whole FOSS
community,
i'm glad you do.
but bashing and ignoring contribution is keeping head deep
deep deeper in sand with bunch of water.
When a company which has done good all this time suddenly changes its policy to the very opposite - what message does it give the people? Either that they are sick of doing that good, or they can't afford to(unlikely in this case), or they just don't care anymore. Whatever the reason - it sets the tone - the company does not give a shit.
In that kind of a situation praising the company for past good is not really the best thing. Simply put - doing that justifies their actions - they could very well claim - we did our bit, now no more so quit whining.
Companies HAVE to realize that FOSS is NOT a one night stand, its a life long commitment :-)
Regards,
- vihan