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Unity founder says fcked-up company prepares to backpedal
- nonrandomstring 3y agoIn a way it's "too late". When you exercise power, make demands, tell everyone what they 'have' to do, it changes the dynamic permanently. Suddenly people are aware of that power, their own weakness and dependency. The threat that you may do it again, any time, looms over the future. It's good that every now and again the corporate mask drops. That's healthy for reminding people that companies aren't nice fluffy friends doing business out of the goodness of their hearts. So people make contingent arrangement, plan mitigations, and that boosts competition, it's refreshing. People were too comfortable with Unity. Perhaps it would be good if Github (Microsoft) also dropped the mask a bit more often, because there's a dangerous concentration of power and dependency if ever there was one.
- slater 3y agoLove it when the hn title rewriter accidentally gets it right :D
- h2odragon 3y ago"build on us is still building on sand: but we're better now because you won't sink quite so fast"