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Re:Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal th... by dijit on Thursday December 24, 2020 @01:41PM (#25530122)
It would be very hard to “taint the legacy” of a person like Carmack.

He will be excellent no matter where he is because he is given essentially free reign to work on what he enjoys the most.

And if that changes it will be unlikely to be the company that did it, since a person in his position would just move to another company and re-acquire free reign.

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Re:Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal th... by ojbyrne on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:23PM (#25530538)
I don’t usually complain about spelling, but you used it twice. It’s “free rein.”

https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/

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Re:Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal th... by derekja on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:32PM (#25532115)
Hehe, while you are usually quite correct in that spelling, in Carmack's case "free reign" may actually be more appropriate since he exercises pretty much sovereign power there!
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