“For example, Chris DiBona, who founded Google’s OSPO 18 years ago, was let go.”
Google’s layoffs took out the founder of its open source office, Samba co-creator Jeremy Allison and the new owner of its open source security work. Alphabet still made $46.34 billion in profit on $69.1 billion in quarterly revenue. The push came from TCI, whose boss reportedly paid himself $1.8 million a day in 2022. Google runs on open source and fired the people who knew how it worked.