John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

  • P03 Locke
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    1129 months ago

    Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat.

    Is that better or worse?

    • The Barto
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      1089 months ago

      I swear they treat CEO’s who tank companies like they do priests who molest kids and just send them to another place whenever they get caught.

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months ago

        That’s corporatism in a wider sense. Existed since times immemorial. It’s a systemic problem, that is, defined by architecture.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
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          89 months ago

          Corporatism like this is fairly new. Creating bullshit positions for your followers is an old tradition among kings and other rulers, but putting people from one leadership position where they fucked up into the next is only here since the capitalist class established itself after the industrial revolution.

            • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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              19 months ago

              The legal fiction known as incorporation or corporate personhood did not exist until the 1400s, and for the first couple of hundred years was used only for churches to acquire assets and land.

              I think what you’re thinking of might be conglomeration, where one company buys every business in its supply and distribution chains. Such as when the Tonight Show and The Late Show are owned by the same people that make nuclear reactors.

              • @[email protected]
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                19 months ago

                That’s not what I’m talking about, I meant, say, helping those similar to you with the implicit idea that they’d help you too, and that being a common rule in a certain subset of the society, thus working.

                Can’t remember now why I chose that word, “corporatism”. (Not important for the subject, but Knights Templar or any trading family or clan that would exist before 1400s can still be called corporations, same for religious sects.)

      • @[email protected]
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        9 months ago

        If you need someone to implement a greedy, extreme position then “pull back to something reasonable” (still further than original), he’s on the short list.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        That’s more at the feet of current leadership at IBM/RH, he resigned in mid 2021. The licensing move could’ve also been made and it just took a while to be official though so who knows.

      • @[email protected]
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        149 months ago

        People in software know who people in software are. Unity is for software developers, not gamers.

        • @[email protected]
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          09 months ago

          It wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much visibility if gamers didn’t know who the dude was

      • Lotus Eater
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        29 months ago

        Probably hasn’t had a chance to fuck up publicly, hopefully he pays attention to the news and doesn’t want to be unpopular