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Dozens Of Canonical Employees Resign As Ubuntu Switches To GNOME, Shuttleworth Returns As CEO (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the aftermath dept.

Alexander J Martin, reporting for The Register: More than 80 Canonical workers are facing the axe as founder Mark Shuttleworth has taken back the role of chief executive officer. The number, revealed today by The Reg, comes as Shuttleworth assumed the position from CEO of eight years Jane Silber, previously chief operating officer. The Reg has learned 31 or more staffers have already left the Ubuntu Linux maker ahead of Shuttleworth's rise, with at least 26 others now on formal notice and uncertainty surrounding the remainder. One individual has resigned while others, particularly in parts of the world with more stringent labour laws (such as the UK), are being left in the dark. The details come after The Reg revealed plans for the cuts as a commercial get-fit programme instituted by Shuttleworth. The Canonical founder is cutting numbers after an external assessment of his company by potential new financial backers found overstaffing and that projects lacked focus.

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  1. well by sirber · · Score: 2, Funny

    after the users left, it's normal that the devs leave afterward

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    Be or ben't
  2. Summary is unclear by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    So part of the summary makes it sound like they're leaving in protest, while another part makes it sound like their positions will be going away - perhaps a "quit or be fired" sort of thing?

    Of course I could just read the article, but I don't want to lose my Slashdot cred... so what's going on?

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    #DeleteChrome
    1. Re:Summary is unclear by godrik · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course I could just read the article, but I don't want to lose my Slashdot cred... so what's going on?

      I am sorry. You lost your Slashdot cred when you read the summary!

  3. From my perspective by jediborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Unity vs GNOME debate is just like this comic: http://extrafabulouscomics.com...

    but i use KDE so i don't really know what i'm talking about

  4. Re:Which is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Summaries here are always incoherent. You should be appreciative it isn't a dup.

    Give it time

  5. Re:Nobuntu by s122604 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubuntu is by far the buggiest OS ever released, open source or proprietary.

    That's why I stick with stable, bug-free, Windows ME, although I'm hearing good things about Vista

  6. Re:If you're fat then losing weight is healthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    (open source people like to get angry)

    I'm sick of these fucking allegations!!