> These are not the people anyone in their right mind, or HR container, would want to fire. They are open source movers and shakers. In open source leadership c

> These are not the people anyone in their right mind, or HR container, would want to fire. They are open source movers and shakers. In open source leadership circles, they're people everyone knows and are happy to work with. At the hands of Google, open source is just a weapon of the complement commoditization. So no wonder they are letting those people go now. In this way, they are trying to lower the antimonopoly pressure against them. The second benefit is preserving all those money that would go to the salaries of those fired people. I doubt this will change the trajectory of accusations. But it gives some momentum in terms of reaping the peak monetary benefits to shareholders before a possible company division through legislation.