First Jeremy Allison, then Ted Haeger, now Robert Love. How many more big names from the open-source community will leave Novell? I spoke with some folks from Novell at LinuxFest NorthWest, and I hear that in addition to the well known names who have left Novell, a number of lesser known, but equally important developers have been steadilly leaving. Many of them appear to be leaving as a result of the MSFT deal from late last year.
Whether or not the deal made financial sense, will they be able to maintain the same level of product quality with the continued loss of critical staff? Who will be next? Novell has a lot of open-source “rock stars” on their team, I’m sure a lot of FL/OSS companies are ready looking forward to hiring them away.