| Novell Linux desktop architect goes to Google |
May 07, 2007
On May 4, Robert Love resigned as chief architect of Novell's Linux desktop efforts. He has since announced that he has accepted a position at Google.
While Love hasn't spelled out what he'll be doing at the Internet search giant, he did write in his blog that he'll be working at Google's Open Source Program Office, the group behind Google Code, among other projects.
When the news first arrived that Love was leaving Novell, there was a great deal of online chatter that Love had left Novell because he disliked Novell's patent partnership with Microsoft.
It is true that one prominent open-source developer, Samba programmer Jeremy Allison, did leave Novell over the Microsoft/Novell patent partnership and was subsequently hired by Google. However, in a brief email exchange with DesktopLinux, Love wrote that he was not leaving Novell because of the Microsoft/Novell patent deal.
Before serving as Novell's Linux desktop architect, Love worked -- and still does -- as a Linux kernel and GNOME developer. He also worked with MontaVista, the well-known embedded Linux company. While working for MontaVista, Love spearheaded the project of improving Linux's real-time capabilities via a "preemptible kernel patch" that is now a standard feature in the mainstream kernel.
Love will start work at Google soon, but first he plans to finish his latest book, Linux System Programming: Talking directly to the Kernel and C Library. O'Reilly Media Inc. plans to publish this volume on Aug. 15, 2007.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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