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Why didn't it occur to someone without occurring to someone first?
by l23k4 4mo ago
Why didn't it occur to someone without occurring to someone first?
- saagarjha 4mo agoBecause the idea that something this obvious occurred to the CTO first is very, very unlikely. What is more probable was that leadership ignored people who disagreed until the CTO convinced himself it was a good idea and went ahead with it.
- Shish2k 4mo agoPeople within Meta have been campaigning for this for _years_; even people as high up as John Carmack were pushing for open bootloaders on deprecated hardware (and he achieved that on the Go headset, but not as a general policy)