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Being Forced to Say Goodbye (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My company's buyout has been completed, and their IT team is in the final stages of gutting our old systems and moving us on to all their infra.

Sadly, this means all my Linux and FOSS implementations I've worked on for the last year are getting shut down and ripped out this week. (They're all 100% Microsoft and proprietary junk at the new company)

I know it's dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shut down, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

That's the nature of a corpo takeover though. Just wanted to let off some steam to some folks here who I know would understand.

FOSS forever! ✊

Edit: Thanks, everybody so much for the kind words and advice!

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know it’s dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shutdown, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

Sadly, something we all have to get used to. Everything we do is ephemeral and the next guy will likely have better/different ideas on how to do things.

Basically everything I've ever built has been torn down or somehow bastardized eventually.

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

The next guy will likely have better/different ideas on how to do things. The extra fucked up part comes when the "new guys" purge all the people and systems that were already working and proven end up just circling around to more or less the old things. While of course acting like it was all their "ideas" after spending more money than was ever needed. The workers get fucked and the undervalued knowledge is lost (and the new workers also get fucked by being underpaid and overworked themselves). So fucking done with how much the wasteful executives giving themselves bonuses and keep cutting more and more corners.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Check your formatting

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

lol thanks. It must have somehow kept the quote format from another reply I made.