> Perhaps it offered those who wanted to go the opportunity to do so, rather than get fired. ...what? the opportunity? In a normal company in most places in t

> Perhaps it offered those who wanted to go the opportunity to do so, rather than get fired. ...what? the opportunity? In a normal company in most places in the developed world being laid off gives you a severance package, while resigning usually doesn't. Not that Canonical is a normal company by any means. The contracts are very bad, almost everyone is some sort of contractor (not an employee); these people most likely would not get anything anyway, just wanted to point out that resigning when you are about to be laid off is a stupid idea. But that is not what has happened anyway, as the article claims people were axed, they didn't resign.