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Re:Dozens of Canonical Employees Resign as Ubuntu Switches t... by 4ad on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:38AM (#14104647)
"Resign". Even the article claims 80 people are axed, not "resigned", and only one guy resigned. Unless they are using United's definition of "volunteering".

Also, this has nothing to do with switching to Gnome. Employees were axed for business reasons.

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Re:Dozens of Canonical Employees Resign as Ubuntu Switches t... by jug on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:47AM (#14104691)
Also on the RTFA topic:

"The Canonical founder is cutting numbers after an external assessment of his company by potential new financial backers found overstaffing and that projects lacked focus."

It may not even have much to do with Mark.

What it looks like to me is that they saw the writing on the wall and knew this external assessment would lead to changes, and took that opportunity to execute a CEO switch plan. The reason behind that switch is perhaps seen above.

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