Yeah, I suppose the reputational harm from the announcement in the first place is going to set them back quite a bit, regardless. I suppose that’s why things like this are supposed to be reviewed before they get announced.
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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year agoWell even going back on their announcement completely would not mend this. They showed they don’t care about their clients and will screw them over at the first occasion. You can’t build a business when the fondation is built on a time bomb.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Yeah, if they didn’t do this and literally just said “from this future version royalties from high earners will need to be paid, as we need an income source. The old version will be a LTS release.” and it would have been literally fine.
But retroactively screwing people like this? Obviously they will lose trust, and I do not understand how they didn’t understand that.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because the people who made the decision aren’t people familiar with the product or the community it caters to. They only see numbers and how mug the numbers could be…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
They could have done some fucking research. The message they sent was they didn’t care about fallout. So they deserve all the blowback of ever.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They believed they could get away with it.