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Linux Foundation Detoxicated -- Slightly -- from Novell Influence

Out goes Rex, in comes Ted

Not so long ago it was Mozilla that got 'detoxicated'. Novell's harmful relationship with the Linux Foundation (LF) is something that we remarked on before [1, 2, 3, 4]. By association, the LF with Novell is an open(er) door to Microsoft, which is a partner/ally of one of its funding sources. There are other examples, e.g. Intel, but it does not come quite so close.



Either way, things are changing for the better. Here is a press release about the departure of Markus Rex from the Linux Foundation. He's going back to Novell, where he was still partly involved. His 'inauguration' we mentioned here and here.

Matt Asay changed his headline from "Novell gets a new/old Linux chief" to "Novell's new Linux chief has Suse history." It's possible that someone from Novell, his former employer, sent him E-mails 'behind the scenes' again (the original headline made it sound like Markus is "old") [correction in the comments]. Anyway, here is his coverage.

Markus Rex, formerly the chief technology officer of Suse and currently on leave from Novell, is back in the saddle as acting general manager and senior vice president of Novell's Open Platform Solutions business unit, reporting to Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe, as Novell announced Monday.


Some more details

Novell has announced two new executive appointments that it said will strengthen its focus on cross-platform solutions and the SUSE Linux Enterprise market.

The company has appointed Roger Levy as senior vice president of strategic development, responsible for cross business unit strategy and offerings for the data center, end-user computing, and identity and security management markets. Prior to his new role, he was general manager and senior vice president of the company's Open Platform Solutions unit.

Markus Rex, who is currently on leave from the company as CTO to the Linux Foundation, will take over as acting GM and SVP of the OPS unit. He joined Novell in 2004 when it acquired SUSE Linux, and has served as GM for SUSE Linux and CTO for the OPS unit.


So who will inherit his place? A short while ago it was announced that it would be Ted (also appearing here and here).

Ts'o will be replacing Markus Rex as CTO of the Linux Foundation. Rex was on loan to the Foundation from his employer Novell. He recently returned to Novell to work as the acting general manager and senior vice president of Novell's OPS business unit.


IDG has covered this.

The Linux Foundation has selected a new CTO, Ted Ts'o, who has been known as the first North American developer of the Linux kernel, the foundation said on Thursday.


This is good news for the Linux Foundation and GNU/Linux as a whole. Ts'o is one of the first contributors to Linux.

Ted Ts'o
Ted Ts'o



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