Additional information about potential causes of layoffs and an example of how Novell employees become drones for a paycheck, accepting nonsensical policies in the process

I want to address the recent layoffs that have taken place at Novell. As is very obvious by now, there have been layoffs at Novell, and some of them did hit contributors to the openSUSE community employed by Novell.

Novell announces more layoffs, 401K pensions suspended as more business continues to be lost

Talks about further MSFT reductions are now seen as more substantiated and GNU/Linux is a main cause

The mainstream media caught the story/report about massive layoffs

Novell elevates more Microsoft technologies; SUSE de-emphasised; layoffs looming

Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers. Despite Oracle laying them off, the team will continue work on Project Wonderland. According to the project blog the core group behind the 3D virtual world toolkit believes in the open source project enough to keep working on it without backing from Oracle.

One of the most interesting things to happen in the past couple of years, is Microsoft's embrace of Open Source. This means different things to various people I've spoken with at Microsoft.

Microsoft's "Slog" against ARM-powered devices began some months ago, but is the latest debacle in any way related to Microsoft?