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Before the skeptical comments rush in If the comment is in relation to the criticism to Mark's donations, I think this is a non sequitur... I believe people un
by myth_buster 11y ago
Before the skeptical comments rush in
If the comment is in relation to the criticism to Mark's donations, I think this is a non sequitur... I believe people understand that in large orgs there are factions that operate with different motives. Also this is a good cause so perhaps it helps their image too. So people won't be too critical of it.
- andreyf 11y agoI often wonder whether the relationships between brand-less factions in (and across) organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand. Take, for example, the changes that have happened at Microsoft since Ballmer's departure. I have a hard time imagining the branching GitHub's Atom to make an open source "light IDE", deprecating IE, and Google's using TypeScript for Angular2 happening while Ballmer's faction was in power. Microsoft has the same name, but it's acting like a very different beast. I'm not sure how one could observe these factions cut across institutions, but I'd be interested if anyone has any suggested readings.
- myth_buster 11y agoorganizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves made under the institutional brand I believe heavy handed central planning at a large scale is destined to be inefficient. Sure there would be fragmentation but the system would be fluid. The chances of bad decisions taking the ship down will be reduced.
- recursive 11y agoIf you're referring to VS Code, it doesn't use Atom at all.
- andreyf 11y agoOh, interesting. Not sure where I heard that... thank you for the correction!
- rand334 11y agoNo, I think it's related to Facebook being a PRISM company and having a deplorable privacy policy, and generally giving no shits about privacy or security. Also, Mark's internet.org wasn't going to support HTTPS.
- awqrre 11y agoApparently this is a donation that has happened unlike Mark's donations. (sorry if I state the obvious but hopefully he doesn't divorce before those donations happen (knock on wood))
- awqrre 11y agoplease help me understand why this comment is so unpopular?