Comments on: Novell lays off AppArmor programmers

Novell reduces AppArmor work, relying instead on the open-source community, but project leaders launch a new company for the open-source Linux security project.

[FutureGuy]

rely on open source community

funny so who pays those open source community people?

[`WarpKat]

Interesting Move by Novell

Although I don't agree with the layoffs, which is something I'll never agree with, I can see why Novell would want to rely on the community to help support it.

If you can build a distro that attracts a large following, such as SuSE has, then you would expect the community at large to continue to support the software that it's built upon.

HOWEVER, if you grab the talent that creates a very useful, albeit not needed, component, one would think that, instead of laying them off, they could re-purpose them to another desirable project within Novell, such as creating something along the lines of integrating another project into the distro.

I honestly think this is a stupid move by Novell and it's going to get a lot of bad press all over the place, despite the seemingly unemotional words from Cowan and Company.

A few words to Novell: don't bite the hands again that feed you.

[JJMacey]

Novell lays off AppArmor programmers

Hi All,

So, who needed this anyway?

JJMacey @ www.jjmacey.net