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"Google asserted in court documents that Reid was fired because the program he headed was being eliminated and because of poor performance." Hopefully the Goog
by gscott 16y ago
"Google asserted in court documents that Reid was fired because the program he headed was being eliminated and because of poor performance."
Hopefully the Google Wave crew is not reading this. (some sarcasm intended, if Google started laying off people for working on a project that ended up being eliminated then employees would be fearful to be placed on anything not established.)
- chc 16y agoThat's "and," not "or." Wave team members don't need to worry unless they suck.
- uxp 16y agoSpecifically regarding Wave, all the information from Google states that they loved it, and will most likely continue using it internally, which they did for months before it was announced. The technology they developed to build the product is also being slowly integrated into their existing products (GIS's redesign seems like it took some of the ideas of wave) as well as being available for integration in new products. Regarding this article, this was 6 to 8 years ago, and Google didn't have its 'persona' it has now. It was still a company struggling to gain market share and I would imagine they wanted developers that strived to push the boundaries of what the web could do. Reid very well could have not had that same goal, being an older generation who already had an ingrained idea of what the internet was and was unwilling to work towards a more dynamic internet. This is all my personal speculation based on personal assumptions, however.