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This feels like a typical sociopathic corporate scenario with mushroom management - let a bunch of nerds develop something new/exciting outside mainstream corporate culture, then once it becomes good enough jump in, cut them off and harvest whatever they produced while reaping all benefits/credits for yourself, then live off mediocre subsequent releases for a while while blaming remaining team members for future failures.

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Not even corporate, that's just human behaviour/history.

We love to elect chest-beating leaders.

Somewhat of a devil's advocate here, because I am very familar with corporate idiocy. But how do you define a non-sociopathic corporate scenario where a company makes a lot of money from a good product they develop? Even if done in maximally practically and emotionally intelligent way, this still requires changes from research phase no?

Developing a business product and monetizing it doesn't require sacking the research group that created it and would have developed it further.

Do you have evidence that they were sacked rather than resigned because they would rather work in a different direction from the one company is taking?

The article directly mentions it; see the section 'Leaving wasn't your choice'.

>But how do you define a non-sociopathic corporate scenario

Corporate structures are sort of sociopathic by default. Theres no empathy globule on the corporate hierarchy and everyone is motivated to put the corporations interests first.

This isnt even a criticism really, its just the reality. Corporations are like, paperclip maximising AI's, but for shareholder profit.

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