Comments on: Novell Loses Another Samba Developer http://techrights.org/2007/03/13/gunther-deschner-leaving/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shane http://techrights.org/2007/03/13/gunther-deschner-leaving/comment-page-1/#comment-409 shane Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:57:39 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/13/lars-mueller-leaving/#comment-409 I'm going to add a category, <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2007/02/06/samba-team-walked-out-on-novell/" rel="nofollow">premonition</a>. There is also an email exchange on Bruce's entry, but is poorly formatted (in firefox anyhow). Here is the content: <blockquote> ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Guenther Deschner Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:39:16 +0100 Subject: [Users] Leaving Hi, today is my last day at Novell/SUSE. Thank you all for having a great time. I'm really proud to see the huge improvements that we accomplished in our products to make us the leading Linux distribution for Windows integration out of the box. The Samba Team has publically criticized the Novell/MS deal. I share that perception and made my own personal decision. Of course, I will continue to work on Samba in the future. You can always contact me at deleted or deleted. Best wishes, Guenther Guenther Deschner Novell / SUSE Labs Samba Team ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lars Mueller To: Guenther Deschner Subject: Re: [Users] Leaving Guenther, On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:39:16AM +0100, Guenther Deschner wrote: > > today is my last day at Novell/SUSE. The management still communicates not having lost any key people. For Samba you and Jeremy disproved this evidently to the public. > > Thank you all for having a great time. I'm really proud to see the huge > > improvements that we accomplished in our products to make us the leading > > Linux distribution for Windows integration out of the box. > > > > The Samba Team has publically criticized the Novell/MS deal. I share that > > perception and made my own personal decision. The ebay Germany has the motto 'three, two, one, mine'. For the Novell's Samba Team we might paraphrase this to 'three, two, one, ...'. I'm not sure yet what rhymes well to one. As a Novell spokesman said: We still have Nat and Miguel. Therefore I suggest to reimplement Samba in mono asap. Quad dual core CPU systems and 64 GB of memory might support it. Enough from the department of bad jokes for today. The last time you left I was unhappy. Instead of today I appreciate your step as I did Jeremy's. I hope you'll find a good working environment and make even the other enterprise Linux OS work well together with Microsoft products. Even and hopefully without a bloody contract. Service Pack 1 of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 product will have the most advanced and state of the art Samba available at the moment. This is the result of Novell's Samba teamwork. The future is left to the reader's imagination. A huge thank you from my side for your hard work in the last two years! In particular as I'm aware of your team mates habit. :)) Lars Lars Mueller Samba Team SUSE Linux, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------- </blockquote> I’m going to add a category, premonition.

There is also an email exchange on Bruce’s entry, but is poorly formatted (in firefox anyhow). Here is the content:

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From: Guenther Deschner
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:39:16 +0100
Subject: [Users] Leaving

Hi, today is my last day at Novell/SUSE. Thank you all for having a great time. I’m really proud to see the huge improvements that we accomplished in our products to make us the leading Linux distribution for Windows integration out of the box. The Samba Team has publically criticized the Novell/MS deal. I share that perception and made my own personal decision. Of course, I will continue to work on Samba in the future. You can always contact me at deleted or deleted.
Best wishes, Guenther
Guenther Deschner
Novell / SUSE Labs Samba Team

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From: Lars Mueller
To: Guenther Deschner Subject:
Re: [Users] Leaving
Guenther,
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:39:16AM +0100, Guenther Deschner wrote:

> > today is my last day at Novell/SUSE. The management still communicates not having lost any key people. For Samba you and Jeremy disproved this evidently to the public.
> > Thank you all for having a great time. I’m really proud to see the huge
> > improvements that we accomplished in our products to make us the leading
> > Linux distribution for Windows integration out of the box.
> > > > The Samba Team has publically criticized the Novell/MS deal. I share that
> > perception and made my own personal decision.

The ebay Germany has the motto ‘three, two, one, mine’. For the Novell’s Samba Team we might paraphrase this to ‘three, two, one, …’. I’m not sure yet what rhymes well to one. As a Novell spokesman said: We still have Nat and Miguel. Therefore I suggest to reimplement Samba in mono asap. Quad dual core CPU systems and 64 GB of memory might support it. Enough from the department of bad jokes for today. The last time you left I was unhappy. Instead of today I appreciate your step as I did Jeremy’s. I hope you’ll find a good working environment and make even the other enterprise Linux OS work well together with Microsoft products. Even and hopefully without a bloody contract. Service Pack 1 of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 product will have the most advanced and state of the art Samba available at the moment. This is the result of Novell’s Samba teamwork. The future is left to the reader’s imagination. A huge thank you from my side for your hard work in the last two years! In particular as I’m aware of your team mates habit. :) )
Lars
Lars Mueller
Samba Team SUSE Linux, Germany
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