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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by jacquesm on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:45AM (#38345546)
Yes, but both of those are not Microsoft's doing but the OpenAI board's doing. You don't just get to name someone to a board without the board to agree to it and normally this happens as a condition of for instance an investment or partnership.

Nadella was rightly furious about this, the tail wagged the dog there. And this isn't over yet: you can expect a lot of change on the OpenAI side.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by rjtavares on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:31AM (#38345981)
Buying 49% of a company is a risky deal. You better make sure the other 51% have good governance.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by jacquesm on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:23AM (#38348647)
Yes, that probably was a mistake, it should have come with more protections. But I haven't seen any documents on the governance other than what is in the media now and there is a fair chance that MS did have various protections but that the board simply ignored those.
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