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Novell loses another Samba team member

Bruce Perens
Tue Mar 13 00:07:43 -0700 2007
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A reliable Novell source has sent me Samba team member Guenther Deschner's farewell email to Novell staff and a follow-up from Lars Mueller, another Samba core team member. Of course Deschner left over Novell's agreement with Microsoft and the bad-faith actions that Novell has taken regarding its GPL-licensed software in connection with that agreement. He follows Samba team leader Jeremy Allison. Read the emails below. 

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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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Novell loses another Samba team member
AB3A
Tue Mar 13 03:56:11 -0700 2007
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It's nice to know that there are folks like these who take their work seriously and don't play to corporate foolishness.  Large companies will learn not to perpetrate such stupidity when they find they have a hard time attracting good talent.  Thanks for the report Bruce!

 
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Roy Schestowitz
Tue Mar 13 19:43:47 -0700 2007
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Obedience is easier than sticking to principles. No guts, no glory.
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Oliver Savage
Wed Mar 14 01:59:39 -0700 2007
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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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