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tester756 on May 19, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

>Given the layoffs round from last week, in a record earnings year, I wonder if this is a side effect of those layoffs.

Decisions, preparations and execution to open source such projects in big corporations to not happen within a week, two or month.

dec0dedab0de on May 19, 2025 [–]

you could probably say the same about layoffs

tester756 on May 20, 2025 | [–]

But the knowledge about layoffs is at very high levels at the beginning

Managers learn about lay offs day or two before engineers

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