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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by sam0x17 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:25AM (#19062863)
For example a CTO could say unilaterally "no, we won't help build the great search firewall for China".
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by cbnotfromthere on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:33AM (#19063859)
For example a CTO could say unilaterally "no, we won't help build the great search firewall for China".

That would be absurd, as such decision has no technical merit.

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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by clubm8 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:34PM (#19064309)
>That would be absurd, as such decision has no technical merit.

You think a CTO's job is only to decide which technologies to use?

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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:40AM (#19077727)
I don't think you have any interest in discussion. CTO's role is of course not just technology related but he can't just veto the management without reason. There are pros and cons to both side for google, and I will be damned if moral reason was not considered when the decision was made, even when there is no CTO.
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by sam0x17 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:54PM (#19064463)
Yeah, this is my point. CEOs are often too detached from the technology to understand the moral/privacy implications of practically anything.
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by YetAnotherNick on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:43AM (#19077755)
How is technology at all related to moral implication? That is like too simplistic view of Google CEO that he does not understand privacy implication.
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by philtar on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:15AM (#19068265)
No but that's not a CTO decision.
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by mbrumlow on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:49AM (#19063562)
Or could say the opposite and fire anybody who refused to do their job ...
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by manigandham on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:49AM (#19063982)
That’s not a CTO decision.
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