New information continues to emerge regarding the results of the mass layoffs at Google, resulting in approximately 12,000 employees being let go (6% of the total workforce). In addition to the layoffs of part of the Fuchsia OS development team, previously reported, several prominent figures advocating for open source software and overseeing the company's open projects have also been affected. Notably, Christopher DiBona, who has served as the engineering and Open Source project director at Google since 2004 (largely credited with projects like Android, Chromium, Kubernetes, Go, and TensorFlow), Jeremy Allison, one of the leaders of the Samba project, Cat Allman, manager of the Open Source Outreach and Making & Science programs, and Dave Lester, who shaped Google's strategy concerning open code and promoted the initiative to enhance security for open projects, were all laid off.
Source: opennet.ru
