Jeremy Allison quits Novell as a lead programmer

Jeremy Allison has apparently resigned from his job as a lead programmer in Novell. Reason for his resignation is the recently announced Novell’s partnership with Microsoft.

Novell is collaborating with Microsoft to allow development of new technologies that will allow Windows OS users to operate with Novell’s SuSE Linux.

Jeremy Allison was cited as saying on this issue: “We can pledge patents all we wish, we can talk to the press and ‘community leaders,’ we can do all the right things…but we will still be known as GPL violators and that’s the end of it.”

He further said that there is nothing that can be done to fix relations with the open-source community.

Interestingly, he would now be indirectly working with Google where he would work on Samba, the open-source project he helped launch. Apparently, companies dealing with Microsoft are now losing good people to search engine giant Google.