I read somewhere (WSJ?) that a fair portion of workers in the auto-industry are temp workers so when they start saying large number of workers it is likely to be mostly from the ranks of these temp workers.
Doesn’t make it sound any better, though.
As for the Novell article, it says less than 100 workers now. That’s not too bad (3%) so far. Overall the open source companies are holding on but it may be just a matter of time…