> Okay, but then, why fire such rockstars as Di Bona and Allison?? These are not coasters. The official messaging is that the layoffs were made in areas that a

> Okay, but then, why fire such rockstars as Di Bona and Allison?? These are not coasters. The official messaging is that the layoffs were made in areas that are low priority for the company. Open source has been an afterthought at Google for many years. Occam's razor says that these people were laid off because they were working in areas of low priority.