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Here I read that at least 4000 people signed a petition opposing the Maven project, and the project was abandoned as a consequence. Had it not been abandoned, p
by henearkr 6y ago
Here I read that at least 4000 people signed a petition opposing the Maven project, and the project was abandoned as a consequence. Had it not been abandoned, probably even more engineers would have joined the march.
https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300 https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-again...
- maxerickson 6y agoRight, they signed a memo asking Google not to do the thing, and, uh, oh, that's all that's in there. And then 4,000 is a lot of people in some sense, but there's 100,000+ full timers.
- henearkr 6y agoIf was sufficient, and they maybe knew it. The memo was probably centered around the interested teams. If the project had been maintained, you probably would have seen further actions... it's just like in the civil society (I mean, in politics, residents opposing local projects, etc), there is a kind of escalation.