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ZDNet: SuSE and Novell: Personality Friction or Culture War?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 11, 2005

“The departure of two high-level SuSE contributors from Novell
begs the question of whether this latest twist in the Novellization
of SuSE is yet another personality clash, or an outright schism
between the community-oriented SuSE heritage and the
command-and-fumble corporate Novell culture.

“If the apparent split in philosophy over the role of the KDE
(SuSe preferred) user interface and GNOME (Ximian/Novell preferred)
one points to a wider philosophical rupture then we can expect a
general parade of developers out from the SuSE R&D ranks within
Novell…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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