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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by inconceivable on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:45PM (#35603296)
all those individual contributor people got rich and left the company.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by MichaelZuo on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:34PM (#35603888)
I can believe half of them did, or maybe 2/3, but that still leaves hundreds of original Googlers who could speak up.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by inconceivable on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:42PM (#35606345)
how old are you? have you ever tried to get a group of 10 people, forget about thousands, to do something in a way that you think is "correct"? especially something worth millions and millions of dollars?

this is beyond the plane of rationality and the social forces take on a life of their own. it's not a math problem.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by MichaelZuo on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:33PM (#35608910)
> have you ever tried to get a group of 10 people, forget about thousands, to do something in a way that you think is "correct"?

Yes I have actually, several times.

It's not easy, and of course it gets exponentially harder as the group grow, but these folks also have access to exponentially greater resources and exponentially greater motivation to do so. (Assuming their desire is to remain loyal shareholders of the company for the long term)

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