Groklaw is reporting that our own Jeremy Allison has resigned from Novell. The resignation comes over concerns Jeremy has about the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, according to Jeremy's resignation letter reprinted on Groklaw.

The Microsoft patent agreement has put us outside the community, and there is no positive aspect to that fact, and no way to make it so. Until the patent provision is revoked, we are pariahs.

Unfortunately the time I am willing to wait for this agreement to be changed to remedy the GPL violation has passed, and so I must say goodbye.