I wonder how many during the last downsizing have or had #Hasbro stock.
I think there is something to be said for speaking up, and actively normalising “sit down and keep quiet” can be problematic.
There's also something to be said for conducting yourself in a professional manner.
I will decide how I choose to communicate. I don't require advice. Thank you.
Easy to say when you're also in the position to choose how everyone
else must communicate, and able to give advice whether anyone wants it or not.
the CEO of Hasbro could spin off much of Hasbro and ‘jump ship’ to WotC, which at that point essentially is what is left of Hasbro, but yes, the initiative would have to come from Hasbro
Even if the shareholders agreed to this it would cost more than it's worth. These business entities are neither equal nor interchangeable without massive restructuring.
I've seen repeated posts expressing exasperation that the OGL scandal is still being held against WotC. But I think it's entirely legitimate to continue to bring that up, for one simple reason: the continuing harm that their attempt to maximize profit caused to the gaming community outweighs, in my opinion, their attempts to repair that harm.
Agreed, and I dearly wish someone had taken the beast to court over it and set a precedent rather than creating a diaspora of new licenses.
Release an OGL v1.0(b), which would be exactly the same as the OGL v1.0(a) except for the following points: 1) add the word "irrevocable" to Section 4 of the license, and 2) release this new OGL v1.0(b) into the public domain, the same way Paizo did for their ORC license, so that WotC doesn't own it.
The OGL itself is under CC, so such modifications are legally trivial. Also Open Source licenses are a contract between content creators, and not 'owned' in a way which enables a third party whose content is
not involved to invalidate it, even if they wrote it.
Generally I agree with your views on companies and there responsibilities. But there is actually a pretty significant movement called Conscious Capitalism that disagrees with your premise about maximizing profit. There is another way, with pros and cons of it's own.
I don't expect companies not to maximize their profits, or think they should act otherwise, but their are companies that are choosing a different approach, and are successful doing so.
Which ones?
Once you buy the book you’ve supported the evil empire you claim to despise. At this point aren’t you part of the problem?
When it comes to leisure products, yes.
does every thread need to become a festering sore of malice and negativity?
No, but to be fair this thread involves a fairly negative aspect of corporations.
If consumers were to refuse to purchase from unethical companies, then ethical companies would get all the business and pretty soon maximizing ethics would be the only way to maximize profits. But as long as we'd rather buy the shiniest new toy than a slightly duller one from an ethical supplier, the current state of affairs will continue.
It's never been that simple, and presenting it as such isn't helpful.
at a time when we now know Larian actually WERE developing BG4,
Wait what?
I've been laid off as part of a company restructuring and it sucks. But what was really hilarious? When they realized they cut too many people they called me and asked me if I wanted to come back and work for them again. I don't know anything about Dan or his position, but the fact that they didn't look him up and offer him his old job back could also be an indication of their valuation of his fit for the new position. Or not. We just don't know.
Maybe they weren't directly contacted, but the folks fired could do worse than apply for this job, as the worst that could happen is they simply aren't rehired.
The worst layoff I ever experienced was when they laid off my entire floor. The reason? So they could outsource our IT to India. The kicker was that the CTO admitted that it saved no money and would likely lower quality and increase development time. But it looked good on paper because the Indian resources didn't get paid as much per hour. In another case (can you tell I worked in IT?) they outsourced to India even though they had just been to a trade show where an Indian company was showing off technology obviously copied directly from a product that the same company had previously been contracted to build.
It's amazing how often this sort of thing happens.
Hourly rates are an awful criteria to judge productivity by
So are lines of code or words per page. Problem is these are among the few things which
can be measured.
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