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"unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project." does not mean the entire team was laid off. Second, no sourc
by johns 16y ago
"unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project." does not mean the entire team was laid off. Second, no source is cited and this is unconfirmed as of yet. I think people should calm down with the speculation until something official happens.
- jsprinkles 16y agoWhy would anybody do that when a chance to disparage Mono is presented?
- blub 15y agoPuzzling indeed, we should look for the positive aspects in this situation. For instance when Nokia chose WP7 and C# over MeeGo and Qt, which lead to layoffs, resignations and other unpleasant consequences, Miguel DeIcaza looked for the positive aspects and declared that Nokia is simplifying the mobile landscape. [1] Similarly, we could now say that Attachmate is simplifying the cross-platform toolkit landscape... [1] http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-14.html http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-14.html