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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
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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
Stop making excuses for your fuck ups and start fix things.
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
THAT'S BETTER GOSH
It's not his fault that his bosses and their bosses are fuckwits. Don't blame the common worker for the shit the company board does
Written by someone who has never beena cog in the machine at a company like this.
There's nothing he can do to affect things there. Nothing. Not even quitting will change anything.
Quitting would probably be doing them a favor tbh they're already trying to fire everyone
You don't understand how development works, at all. The developers themselves don't make these kind of decisions at these companies. They just do what they are told to do by their higher-ups. The higher-ups happen to be corporate businesspeople that don't really know much about tech, and only care about profits.
The blame for Unity's failures belongs to the executives and businesspeople, not the developers.