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If you're working in a development environment where management is drawing hard lines at choosing your tooling you should find a place that's going to succeed.
Sometimes the tooling is in place before you arrive.
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This is it, in a nutshell. People don't want the apology. They want to know that a decision like this doesn't have a chance of happening because the people in charge know it's a bad idea before it leaves the door. No one wants to be stuck in a cycle of getting fucked and then boycotting to get what they want, especially for something that their livelihood depends on. They want a product made by people they trust who…
I don't have a horse in the Unity issue, though I've been following it loosely. I can speak to my own response to another organisation. I'd written off Reddit personally around five-six years ago. This despite having a fairly long-lived bloggy subreddit (and a small smattering of others) on the site, which I still use as a reference (despite having taken it private). It wasn't specifically on account of the specific…
When did we start talking about the airline industry?
But seriously, the reason it works for the airline industry is because there is literally no other alternative, unlike in this case.
1) What type of person gets hired as CEO?
2) What type of person excels as CEO?
3) What type of person seems most suited to being a CEO while actually being least suited?
Possible Answers:
1) the salesmen, the connected, the take-crediting, the attractive, the eloquent, the politically savvy, the ambitious, the tactical
2) the decisive, the persevering, the give-crediting, the communicative, the empathetic, the trustworthy, the humble, the strategic
3) When confidence is unwarranted
Both types of people have high confidence, but only one type has a good reason to be confident. Both types are effective in making plans and executing upon them, but where the first type’s plan’s focus on personal success, the second type’s plans focus on mutual success.
Is there a good way to distinguish between the two? Yes, but subtly — have their former direct reports gone on to success outside of the candidate’s current sphere of influence? The first type will drag along the people they can trust to support their personal ambitions, elevating them in the process. The second type will elevate their direct reports without grasping on to them as life preservers in choppy political seas.
Being a good CEO is a very difficult job, and should be rewarded. It is the most important job anyone can have at a company. It is also the hardest to fill with the right person, given the hordes of ill-suited confidence men seeking their own stardom.
This seems very reasonable actually? Being able to choose 2.5% revenue share (half of Unreal) does not sound bad to me. And very glad they removed the retroactivity of the new fees.
Awaiting countless variants of "who the hell thought this price change sounded like a good idea, and are they fired yet".
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That the CEO didn't write this is a major indicator that he has or will be fired.
What are they doing? Biding their time?
This is all pure speculation based on what I would do if I was on Unity's board. I'm confident that his contract has all sorts of gotchas and landmines, so there is probably a ton of expensive lawyering happening right now on both sides.
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> - Doesn't apply to old versions It's not beyond the realm of reasonable belief to assume they can or will roll out some breaking change eventually that forces upgrades.
The old version of Unity can be used offline. Truly offline. How are they going to force you to upgrade? Hakc into your PC?
Oh wait, apparently he is no longer CTO as of May 2023.
Well, what was his last official statement?
https://blog.unity.com/community/updated-terms-of-service-an...
"When you make a game with Unity, you own the content and you should have the right to put it wherever you want. Our TOS didn't reflect this principle - something that is not in line with who we are.
We charge a flat fee per-seat -- not a royalty on all of your revenue. Building Unity takes a lot of resources, and we believe that partnerships make better services for developers and augment our business model -- as opposed to charging developers to pay for Unity’s development through revenue share.
When you obtain a version of Unity, and don’t upgrade your project, we think you should be able to stick to that version of the TOS."
Well, that all sounds pretty good to me! Perhaps its time for Joe to pull a Steve Jobs style comeback.
Tangential: what other downloadable software makes (or, tries to make) money with "revenue share"? I'm aware of these not-downloadable-but-is-digital services/stores/platforms that do: - app stores (Apple takes 30%, Google takes 30%) - content (YouTube keeps 45%, Twitch takes a cut) - e-commerce (Etsy 5% transaction fee; eBay takes a %) - music/podcast (Spotify; SoundCloud) - e-learning (Udemy; Teachable) - gaming (S…