Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 122•6 months ago
Unity employee here, idk anything specific about the departments that handle this I wouldn’t even know what their name is. With that caveat, I will say that all the layoffs last year going into this year, changing CEOs, and the competition between big company beurocracy and the dying breath of small company culture, a lot of departments are behaving erratically. I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody internally has a clear answer why this was banned but others aren’t. Some workers may legit be trying to help but their hands are tied for corporate or maybe even legal reasons, it could be people trying to keep their heads down and close tickets quickly to keep metrics up in the hopes they’re less likely to be fired. I think you all know this already but please don’t be too hard on the workers we’re doing what we can but it’s a corporate mess right now
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 85•6 months ago
Look, it’s a low level employee of a faceless corporation!
GET 'IM!
Jokes aside, thanks for the transparency, and salute to you and your coworkers for trying to weather the storm caused by “shifting paradigms”… that’s what they call it, right? I know the execs can shift my paradigm, that’s for sure.
Peace and love.
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 13•6 months ago
Tech in general but especially the game industry desperately needs to unionize. If the last couple years doesn’t convince tech bros they’re just as expendable as all the other working class out there, idk what will. Got to do something to insulate us from “restructures”, “rightsizing”, and “company resets”
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 23•6 months ago
I feel like more than anything right now, you need a hug. 🤗
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 4•6 months ago
I appreciate you
- SRo ( @SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•6 months ago
Stop making excuses for your fuck ups and start fix things.
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 14•6 months ago
Amazing lol. Yeah I’ll get right on that maybe I can talk some sense into the CEO during my daily morning cocktails with him
- detalferous ( @detalferous@lemm.ee ) 71•6 months ago
The VLC team are heroes. Three cheers.
- ThermoToaster ( @ThermoToaster@exng.meme ) 52•6 months ago
At this point you should know that unity is an evil company.
- Lunya \ she/it ( @backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 4•6 months ago
It was literally led by the evil EA guy.
- NekuSoul ( @nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ) 3•6 months ago
Was led. He left after the license fee catastrophe.
- CrypticCoffee ( @CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml ) 5•6 months ago
But the interim CEO led the redundancies. The common factor in all of this is the board. The CEO just does what the board are pushing for and sign off on. Ricky is bad and not a good man by any stretch of the imagination, but he was less bad 2/4/6 years ago for a bit. He’s just the hatchet (yes) man doing the business of the big shareholders.
The next CEO will likely be following the same play book. Without a change of board, it’s still an evil company. Ricky was just the fall guy that they bin off so naive folk buy into the fact it’s “all fixed, and back to old Unity”.
The great advise right now, is stay away from Unity. You have Godot, Armory3d, and hell, even Epic run Unreal Engine is better.
- digdilem ( @digdilem@lemmy.ml ) 7•6 months ago
The CEO just does what the board are pushing for
Too many people don’t understand this.
Usually[1], CEO’s exists mostly to be the public fall guy for the faceless board’s decisions, and those are mostly shaped by the shareholder’s unending drive for profit. The only real subtlety is whether that drive for profit is short or long term, which drives expansion policy.
[1] Certain high profile CEOs excepted, who have a lot of weight with the board’s direction because they founded the company or are considered too valuable to lose.
- Lunya \ she/it ( @backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 2•6 months ago
Wait he already left?
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 4•6 months ago
The parachutes don’t work if you stay on the plane.
- Lunya \ she/it ( @backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 0•6 months ago
What?
- Zink ( @Zink@programming.dev ) 3•6 months ago
I think they were referring to golden parachutes.
- Lunya \ she/it ( @backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 1•6 months ago
What²?
- SmoochyPit ( @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org ) English28•6 months ago
Companies really do be taking people’s work and profiting off of it, then not giving back whatsoever. :(
- zeluko ( @zeluko@kbin.social ) 13•6 months ago
Thats why you need Licenses to stop that… well jf you can afford to fight them at all, haha.
Money always wins…
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) 12•6 months ago
Who tf bans something so good, benevolent, and upstanding as VLC?
- Yerbouti ( @Yerbouti@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 months ago
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