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April 28, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Open source executive moves Part...? (Ted Haeger moves on)

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Novell just lost one of its most visible and vocal advocates. Ted Haeger, once the face of Novell's Linux desktop and eventually its most prominent community liason, has left Building H (Novell's former Provo headquarters) to scout greener pastures at Bungee Labs (where I am an advisor and a company I strongly encouraged Ted to join).

Is this bad for Novell? Yes. Any good person leaving Novell is bad for the company. But that's not really the right question to be asking. Ted's move, as I understand it from talking with him, is not about leaving Novell. It's about joining Bungee, where he will be instrumental in helping the industry to navigate uncharted waters: the intersection between open source licensing and the Web.

What happens when you cross an Open Source License 1.0 with Web 2.0? You mostly get a lot of use of open source code, but not much contribution back. But what if you could engineer compliance into the Web? That's the sort of thing Ted will be working on, and it's such a delicate subject that it's good Bungee will have a true open source advocate like Ted on board.

Posted by Matt Asay on April 28, 2007 08:27 PM

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