Suse Linux Founder Exits Novell

csplinter writes write to tell us that SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell stating "Too late for me. I just decided to leave Suse/Novell. This is no longer the company I founded 13 years ago." Novell confirmed his resignation but had little else to say on the topic. From the article: "Mantel's departure also comes less than a week after Novell announced a major restructuring that would result in 600 layoffs. It's unclear if Mantel's resignation is related to the restructuring."

Re:"Too Late"?

[darth_MALL]

Too late to save him from death after he finally turned back to the light side. SEE! There was still good in him!

Re:13 years for what

[Amouth]

they have solutions???? damn i wish some of the places i go that have novell would look into that.. all i see is something you install and nothing works.. it isn't that it is broken .. it's just does nothing.. nothing at all..

who is it unclear to?

[frovingslosh]

It's unclear if Mantel's resignation is related to the restructuring.

Who is it unclear to? And what are they smoking?

Especially...

[alamandrax]

When we took away his stapler. That just pissed him off.

Restructure...

[Anonymous Coward]

/ Sorry, SuSE's restructuring supposed   \
| that chamaleon got fired. Get used to  |
| me: the more efficient, featureful     |
\ allmighty and POSIX compliant Clippy!  /
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         \   / __ \
          \  O|  |O|
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Re:So why no KDE??

[cloudmaster]

I like the Polish too, but I'm not sure what they have to do with KDE in SuSE. Maybe if you were telling a lightbulb replacing joke it would be relevent that you like the Polish, but not here.

I'm gonna have to drive by the Weinerschnizel on the way home now, and get a Polish sandwich. Or maybe just some mini corn dogs. Yeah, I think I'll get mini corn dogs. I like the corn dogs *and* the Polish.

The Conversations

[mpapet]

The guy probably heard a few of these lines before throwing in the towel.

1. Bring that point up at the next meeting.
2. Check with person X to okay Y.
3. Find out when person Z's subordinate has the time to do that task.
4. I know you preferred Option A but the company is doing Option B.
5. Fill out that form and give it to accounting and wait 30 days to get reimbursed.
7. The Board has decided to go a diffferent direction.
8. Let me run that by person A before doing anything.
9. Send me an email about it to remind me....

There's a bunch more probably much funnier too. Join in and add a few!

Re:How is that "insightful"?!

[alamandrax]

heh heh. insightful. one almost feels sentient.

Re:The Conversations

[segedunum]

Let's touch base on that!

Re:The Conversations

[The Monster]

10. I think we need to establish a committee to deal with that.
11. Is this initiative compatible with our Mission Statement?
12. Can we proactively leverage vertical syergies to deliver five-nines reliability?
13. We need a subcommittee to work on that aspect of your plan.
14. Now that you've written all that code, we're changing the design specs on you.
15. ...again.
16. If there's such a thing as a sub-subcommittee, we'll be needing one of those.
17. We need a cross-departmental task force to get a wider perspective on things.
18. The task force needs to divide itself into committees along departmental lines.
19. We need to make everything top priority!
20. ???
21. PROFIT!

all I have to say is...

[DarkProphet]

So long and thanks for all the SuSE!

(Apologies to both NOFX and the late Douglas Adams)

Re:who is it unclear to?

[AkaXakA]

1 down, 599 to go!

Re:13 years for what

[Amouth]

oh i have seen plenty of good set up netware servers.. my personal favorite is

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_no vell_server_discovered_after/ [theregister.co.uk]

(a friend of mine was an admin up there when it happened.)

on the other hand.. i have seen horridly setup stuff.. and the client computers always having issues.. my favorite is watching network packets and seeing printer discovery packets from a school network in greensboro in a school network in wilmington..

Re:13 years for what

[Amouth]

for some reason i wish that was posted on the front page as a link.. just so we could slashdot it.

Re:Who cares?

[Rod Beauvex]

In all seriousness, is that not the point of Slashdot?

Re:"Too Late"?

[gad_zuki!]

> What is the "too late for me" in reference to?

Its, umm, Bladerunner. Right before he left Novell he reportedly also said, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Dramatic fellow. Maybe he should be an actor.

Re:K5ARP, we love you

[HishamMuhammad]

First I see circletimessquare posting on Slashdot, and now K5ARP. WTF!? Apple goes Intel, Pink Floyd reunited, Sarge is released... K5 becomes the "other site"? Is the world truly coming to an end?