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Microsoft Hosts Sting Concert for Execs Before Layoffs
- andrew_ 4y agohttps://archive.is/QBTQL https://archive.is/QBTQL
- m348e912 4y agoSting concert
- ekianjo 4y agolooks like he's playing strings too
- paulpauper 4y agoThis confirms every worst stereotype of bosses and management
- hbcondo714 4y agoAlso discussed here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34458695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34458695
- toastal 4y agoSo we boycott their products out of solidarity with fellow tech workers, right?
- thinking4real 4y agoWhat trash products of theirs have you been buying? I honestly couldn’t name a single one outside of windows, and that’s a pretty big dumpster fire
- toastal 4y agoMicrosoft has a portfolio of day-to-day tools developers could boycott by moving to alternatives: GitHub, Sponsors, Copilot, Codespaces, VS Code, Teams, Office 365, Azure. npm as well, but that’s going to be a difficult one to avoid. And this isn’t including Windows the OS (as mentioned), game consoles, Android apps, etc. from one’s personal life. And remember ‘free’ services in a for-profit context means you are the product or your vendor lock-in choice will make it not free in the future.
- rnd0 4y agoif you love somebody...set them free
- osigurdson 4y agoAs long as this is what the shareholders want, I don't see any issue with it. The strange part is why would Sting want to do this? $500K wouldn't move the needle for him in any material way. Why risk your legacy for chump change (relatively speaking of course)?