Comment on Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out
pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
I want to know who hired that fucking CEO and put him up to purposefully tanking Unity.
This can’t be anything more than a blatant attempt to destroy a company so who would have a vested interest in destroying Unity? It can’t just be for money.
Its the same ethos of those CEOs that are demanding everyone must return to the office. No ifs, or buts.
They damage moral which takes years to build up, they further announce layoffs which destroys whatever moral was left.
These idiots never seem to be held accountable.
Honestly, these management types need to be case studied.
We have to start holding them accountable ourselves, because the system sure ain’t gonna do it.
Yeah, it’s looking like 1776 time.
He’s a VC CEO, he’s there to pump the company for everything it’s worth for maximum stock returns.
I just checked the stock ticker for Unity and it fucking tanked. So that can’t be it.
I wouldn’t put it past them to short their own stock while they make announcements then go long once things settle down…
How the fuck is that even legal?
No one said they were good at their job
Maybe it grow too big or the wrong way for their taste? Good reason to fire a few hundred and restructure.
It is Big Godot pulling the strings to entice people to jump ship to their free and open source game engine. The plan is dastardly, but effective. Can’t use other game engines if there are no other engines left standing.
You know, if Godot was actually a for-profit endeavor, I probably would believe you.
It’s not only the CEO, it’s all the board. Don’t think he can do this kind of shit alone.
I want to know who hired that fucking CEO
Clearly someone who came from the same line of thinking as Steve Huffman.
It can’t just be for money.
Lol
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly, there often comes a time when a critical mass of the business leaders decide “you know what, I want to cash out and no matter how disastrous this will be long term, I think short term this will milk some revenue out of some captive audience”.
In the IT industry, that time is usually when Broadcom buys you.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 year ago
You’re hurt me right in the vSphere.
What a lot of people at these companies don’t understand is that other options existing means people will find a way to continue without you… The more that happens, the larger the community… the faster you fail.
When Broadcom announced buying VMWare, literally all the IT subreddits in unison looked for other alternatives. We’re on Proxmox now, it’s been a better product that VMWare in literally every way.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s also called the trust thermocline. Once a certain level of exploitation is reached, customers leaving suddenly goes very quickly and usually unrecoverable. The straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Or in the case of unity, you smash the poor camel with a baseball bat and are very surprised it tries to bite you.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And this is why we shouldn’t have monopolies. People shouldn’t be held hostage by one or two companies. When they go full stupid like Unity is, the customers grumble, shrug, and get to work with a different system.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or not just monopolies, but companies in general have a dictatorship authoritarian structure where the c-suite has all the decision making power and employees or customers can go fuck themselves. Corporations should be made for the people by the people.
Acters@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m forced to use VMware for cisco classes.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 year ago
Sounds a bit odd… What networking class requires VM platform usage?
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember at the time that a presentation circulated on a previous Broadcom acquisition, as a preview of what was in store for vmware. I never saw analagous material for vmware exactly, and I can’t remember what Broadcom acquisition it was.
Their analysis was that they predicted their changes would kill off any new business, and kill off 80% of the existing customer base. However, this was fine as the other 20% was so stuck that they could charge more than 5x to make up for it, and all without spending any money on R&D and reducing customer support load.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 year ago
While I know nothing of the numbers… This was my understanding of it as well. That they’d make probably just as much if not more money because of the captive groups.
However, while they might be captive now… Doesn’t mean they’ll be captive forever. VMWare is going to lose the entire market over this very rapidly, then the rest slowly after.
jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social 1 year ago
In the software side of IT, this is usually when you start seeing layoffs and a mass replacement of talented developers with bottom-of-the-barrel offshore contractors. Beware the following fail cascade.
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Kicked me right in the Reddit.
pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That’s what everyone is saying but this policy will only cost them money from lawsuits, so it can’t just be about money.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 year ago
It will cost them in future earnings… Companies won’t want to work on their platform if these policies are still in place… and many will never want to work with them again since they’ve shown their hand.
pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That is what makes me think there’s something more to this.
I think rival companies might groom CEOs that get hired by their competitors but whom, secretly, are paid by the rivals to destroy the companies from within.
Perhaps I’m wrong but that’s the only explanation I’ve been able to come up with that makes any sense to me.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, plenty of business “geniuses” make some pretty boneheaded moves, especially when they feel a need to try to produce huge growth after saturating a market, or if their business results somehow fall short of some need (either actually losing money, or some arbitrary self-imposed “goal” not being hit).
Currently there’s an epidemic of businesses making some pretty dubious long term decisions for the sake of trying to prop up numbers amidst a receding market reality. Recessions are, in part, a self-fulfilling prophecy, where whatever impetus exists, it’s exacerbated by every participant screwing things up further.