● NEWS ● #TimBray #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Lock-in and Multi-Clown https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In
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● NEWS ● #TimBray #Energy ☞ Three Electric-Jaguar Years https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/22/Three-Jaguar-Years
● NEWS ● #TimBray #CivilRights ☞ Catharsis https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/02/Amazon-Catharsis "settle the charge against Amazon at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the company illegally fired us for speaking up about warehouse workers' conditions during COVID."
● NEWS ● #TimBray #Energy ☞ How Much Range? https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/09/01/How-Much-Range
● NEWS ● #TimBray #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Apps Getting Worse https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse "Too often, a popular consumer app unexpectedly gets worse: Some combination of harder to use, missing features, and slower."
● NEWS ● #TimBray #Energy ☞ Western Electric https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/05/Western-Electric
Bye, Amazon
May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19....
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VPs shouldn’t go publicly rogue, so I escalated through the proper channels and by the book. I’m not at liberty to disclose those discussions, but I made many of the arguments appearing in this essay. I think I made them to the appropriate people.
That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned.
The victims weren’t abstract entities but real people; here are some of their names: Courtney Bowden, Gerald Bryson, Maren Costa, Emily Cunningham, Bashir Mohammed, and Chris Smalls.
I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right? ...
-- Tim Bray
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon
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