Ximian Founder Quits Novell
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-01-09 12:02:03 UTC
- Modified: 2010-01-09 12:02:03 UTC
Summary: Nat Friedman says goodbye to Novell, but the Microsoft/Mono damage he put inside the company is there to stay
ANOTHER Friedman quits Novell (we wrote about the previous one last year). He is the (co-)founder of Ximian, the motor behind Mono.
Here is some
coverage from Linux Magazine (also in [
1,
2,
3]):
How long this will take is unclear, but he plans a startup in the US when they get back.
What area/s will this involve? He was at Microsoft back in the days when he met Miguel de Icaza, who is
now on Microsoft's board of the CodePlex Foundation. Miguel's bad friends (notably
the boy who wept)
are still smearing Stallman by distorting what he said and
pranks aside, de Icaza
carries on promoting
Moonlight, which helps Microsoft of course. They are even
bringing it closer to kernel space. David Reveman, a Novell employee,
adds pixel shading.
David Reveman has just posted a fascinating patch that debuts the support of pixel shaders in Moonlight.
Clearly there are higher priorities for GNU/Linux on the desktop. Why is Novell so preoccupied with
Microsoft Moonlight? Maybe because that's
where Novell's income comes from.
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"[The partnership with Microsoft is] going very well insofar as we originally agreed to co-operate on three distinct projects and now we’re working on nine projects and there’s a good list of 19 other projects that we plan to co-operate on."
--Ron Hovsepian, Novell CEO