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Re: Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

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me-vs-cat wrote: post #392
pabs3 wrote: post #384

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The Open Source Definition is only about copyright licensing, but it does mention "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups". https://opensource.org/osd/ Technically you can of course discriminate in other ways and remain Open Source, like banning folks from downloading, or interacting with your bug tracker etc. Often those bans will be ineffective, for eg when there are multiple download mirrors that don't have t…

> ...like banning folks from downloading, or interacting with your bug tracker etc. Often those bans will be ineffective [including because the folks you banned can interact with an intermediary] You miss the point. I'm not sure if this will help, but I'll see if I can expand and reiterate. Seeing this whole reply now, I apologize for the length. You might go back up to the parent comment and re-read what I was addre…

You are entirely correct.

Forcing interactions with additional parties you aren't already interacting with is usually considered a non-free license condition.

For example Debian has the dissident and desert island tests for this reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideline...

Re: Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

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Post by sureIy »

photomatt wrote: post #176
bdndndndbve wrote: post #149

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My guy, I know lots of autistic people. You're not coming across as autistic, you're giving straight up Napoleon marching into Russia with this one.

Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to do better.

Stop fighting WPE if you actually want to do better.

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Post by LightBug1 »

Hamuko wrote: post #232
user90131313 wrote: post #31

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twitter fired a lot more % and it's still working

The spam filtering system sure as shit isn't working. The amount of spam DMs I get is crazy. The trends section has also been busted for ages. Click on the "Show more" link and it shows you less .

Yeah, that's the bit that finally made me delete that account.

I was pissed at Musk and his nonsense anyway - but the amount of random spam on there just made it annoying to use.

I mean, no I don't want a discount on a boob job ... but thanks.

Re: Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

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Post by alexp11223 »

tzs wrote: post #207
yellow_lead wrote: post #135

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I think in the US it's less tricky. There are much more openings without time zone issues.

Jurisdiction issues are also probably a big factor. If you have employees in N jurisdictions you potentially have to deal with N different sets of laws and regulations concerning income taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, health insurance, employment contracts, layoffs, maternity/paternity leave, unions, and probably many I've overlooked. Remote employees in the same city? Trivial. Different cities in the same count…

I think most of the companies (most likely including Automattic) are not doing it like that for remote employees from other countries. They are just "hiring" them as contractors, that is formally it's just B2B, the employee would register some kind of individual business entity in their country, send invoices, pay taxes. The contract may include things like vacations, sick days, (home office) equipment compensation, N months notice/severance pay, but it has no connection to the laws for normal employees in that country.

I think doing it differently would not be practical, because the company would have to maintain some kind of companies/offices in each country. Another option can be hiring the employee directly at the main company (not sure about US, but I am pretty sure it's possible at least for some countries in Europe), but it's also more complex and I am not sure if this would even make sense for the employee since e.g. they would not be able to access the benefits like healthcare remotely. And as long as the contract is good and the company is trustworthy, being a contractor/self-employed may have some advantages like lower taxes.

Re: Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer

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Post by biggneer »

hluska wrote: post #325
photomatt wrote: post #123

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This was more generous than both the Basecamp and Coinbase buyout offers, I'm curious why you say I'm a petty tyrant. I can be a little ASD so sometimes my written communication doesn't come through the best.

Matt, I’ve had a lot of respect for you for a long time. But you have an employee on Reddit trashing every single person who left en masse. https://www.reddit.com/user/r_mutt1917/ I understand that things get emotional and things happen. Especially in business. If you’re looking for perfection, you will not find it in me. But, this is extreme. It’s tremendously unkind and terribly unprofessional. The worst part is th…

That user deleted their comments, but they're still visible at this link, which reads them from an archive of Reddit: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/Wordpress/comments/1fvl9aa/wo...

Also at: https://archive.today/nsBjE

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