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Gentoo Linux Founder Quits Microsoft
News Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project, has quit his job at Microsoft after only eight months, the software giant confirmed on Monday. Last May, Robbins made the unusual switch from being a well-known...
[February 14, 2006, 9:20]
SuSE Founder Walks Out Of Novell
News SuSE co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company in 2004. Mantel announced the move on a SuSE Linux mailing list Tuesday, and Novell confirmed the move...
[November 10, 2005, 8:25]
AOL Co-founder Steps Down
News AOL co-founder Steve Case stepped down from Time Warner's board of directors as the Internet division tries to make a comeback. We have great respect for his long record of achievement - as a co-founder of AOL to a valuable member of our board.
[November 1, 2005, 16:15]
Yahoo Founder Offers Advice To Google
News Speaking during the Web 2.0 conference, the Yahoo co-founder said he told Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to relish their success. Jerry Yang has some advice to the two Stanford graduates now running archrival Google -- enjoy it...
[October 8, 2004, 9:30]
Exclusive: Founder Gill Exits Quark
News After months of speculation that his departure was imminent, Quark founder, chairman and chief technology officer Tim Gill has reportedly told the staff of the publishing software powerhouse that he has sold his holdings in Quark to concentrate on...
[October 25, 2000, 9:17]
Suse Founder Returns To Novell
News The co-founder of Suse has returned to the company just one year after he resigned. Hubert Mantel rejoined Novell this month, where he is heading up the kernel quality assurance team. Novell acquired Suse in 2003.
[December 20, 2006, 15:29]
Napster Founder Scales New Peaks
News Jordan Mendelson, who helped develop Napster's search technology in its early days, is also a co-founder. Far from his anarchic Napster days, file-swapping pioneer Shawn Fanning and several of his old colleagues are quietly working on a new venture...
[January 27, 2004, 10:55]
Sun Co-founder Returns To Fold
News Not surprisingly, Sun executives were much more enthusiastic in talking about Bechtolsheim's return than about the 2003 departure of another co-founder, Bill Joy. Nine years after leaving the server maker he co-founded in 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim is...
[February 18, 2004, 10:55]
Freeserve Founder Pushes Private Browsing
News The founder of Freeserve has unveiled his latest venture — a Web-browsing tool that claims to preserve the privacy of its users. Browzar, as Ajaz Ahmed's brainchild is called, is a free application that can be downloaded and either saved to the...
[August 31, 2006, 13:25]
Sun Acquires Firm Employing Its Co-founder
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to acquire Kealia, a start-up that designs servers with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor and that employs Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. Sun chief executive and fellow co-founder Scott McNealy greeted...
[February 11, 2004, 7:50]
Net Founder: Traffic Growth Spells Revival
News Internet traffic quadrupled during the past year, and demand from corporations is so strong that carriers will be forced to start spending significant money on upgrades early next year, sparking a turnaround in the industry, a founder of the...
[August 19, 2001, 8:30]
Freenet Founder Launches Business P2P Product
News That's a far cry from the radical anticensorship drive of co-founder Ian Clarke, whose Freenet project which first brought him and Uprizer into the public eye. Hard drive space and processors are cheap enough that a company could simply buy a few...
[May 1, 2002, 12:46]
Demon Founder Loses RIPA Appeal Bid
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, has been denied the right to appeal against his conviction for illegally intercepting emails, according to Out-Law.com. On Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld Judge Geoffrey Rivlin's ruling that...
[February 3, 2006, 14:50]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. Can a fledgling nonprofit organisation with half a dozen employees challenge the largest software company in the world?
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Demon Founder In Court Over Email Interception Charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon and Redbus, went on trial on Tuesday over charges of unlawful email interception. The trial at Southwark Crown Court began with the counsel for the defence asking for the judge to rule on certain legal...
[September 13, 2005, 16:05]
Demon Founder Pleads Guilty To Email Charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, also pleaded guilty to the same charge.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
Yahoo's Founder Responds To China Criticism
News Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Xansa Founder Honoured With BCS Award
News The BCS Lifetime Achievement Award 2004 went to Dame Stephanie Shirley, the founder of IT services group Xansa. The British Computer Society (BCS) IT Professional Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday night in London.
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
Mandriva Co-founder Booted From Linux Firm
News Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees who lost their jobs at the company after it became unprofitable in its most recent financial quarter. To deal with the situation, the company announced the elimination of...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Sun Co-founder Set To Depart
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, is leaving the company. Joy helped develop many Sun technologies, including its Java software, SPARC microprocessor architecture and the Solaris operating system.
[September 9, 2003, 15:25]
