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Layoffs and CEO Resignation At OSDL

Posted by kdawson on from the linus-is-ok-though dept.

lisah writes "Big changes are afoot at Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) with today's surprise announcement of the departure of CEO Stuart Cohen and the layoff of nine other employees. Details are still emerging about what exactly this means for OSDL but according to a preliminary announcement, Cohen is 'leaving to pursue other open source opportunities' and OSDL is 'refocusing the scope of [their] work to better align resources with [their] revenues...'" The article also mentions the last year's layoff at OSDL.

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  1. Little revenue obtained making free software? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1, Troll

    Little revenue obtained making free software? The single biggest attraction of open source is that as a big corporation, you can leech the efforts of thousands of unpaid but experienced contractors and never once feel the need to give back. (e.g., Thanks Apache!) So...it isn't exactly surprising that OSDL isn't exactly raking in the dough.

  2. So, to recap... by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Troll
    • We have a group at least partially led by a Stalinist fanatic who has tried to prove that economic incentive is actually detrimental to producing good work, and who has essentially declared war on capitalism in general. (At least as far as software is concerned, anyway)


    • As a direct outgrowth of their beloved Leader's stated beliefs, said group themselves verbally abuse, defame, and threaten without mercy any within their midst who would be suicidally foolish enough to attempt to openly generate revenue in association with open source. Said group are themselves typically grindingly poor, cubical-dwelling wage slaves whose primary objection to capitalist philosophy is a seething resentment over the idea that somebody *else* might get rich. (I find myself wondering how much abuse Mark Shuttleworth has had to weather over his own economic status, although he apparently had the good sense to become wealthy in another field before starting Ubuntu. He'd probably find himself nailed to a cross if he tried to generate revenue from that)

    Then, moving forward, we suddenly find that businesses which trade in Linux, (or try to) apparently aren't doing so well.

    Gee...Wonder why?