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Open source company SUSE has taken a pot-shot at cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor VMware, contrasting the latter's proprietary, closed-source offering with the OpenStack Cloud that it sells.

Senior Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has claimed he asked the Linux Foundation to withdraw funding from the Software Freedom Conservancy back in 2016, because he was unhappy with the way in which the SFC went about enforcing compliance with the GPL, the licence under which the Linux kernel is published.

Open source veteran Dirk Hohndel has joined cloud infrastructure and business mobility vendor VMware as its vice-president and chief open source officer.

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a man who is generally very definite in his views and speech. And when he dislikes something, when something gives him the shudders and the shakes, boy do you get to know about it!

Among the open source legions, Dirk Hohndel stands out in one way. Among the hundreds of speakers who have delivered words of wisdom at the Australian national Linux conferences over the last four years, he is probably the only person to depend solely on his speaking prowess to do so.