Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’
www.polygon.com
The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

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Original Discussion[1]

San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

  1. https://lemmy.world/post/5057297 ↩︎

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    626·
    10 months ago

    Sad cunts milking it for sympathy there you have it fuck the whole thing off donate to Godot or spool up your own engine like the good ol days

    • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      172·
      10 months ago

      We really need to make this a thing again. Not only for software but for anything. And we need legislature to enable us.

      Don’t like how the banks treat people? Make your own. In the USA you need 12 million capital to even open such a thing. Since 2008, the banks have seemingly no competition from new banks (source https://www.upflip.com/blog/how-to-start-a-bank).

      One could say that you‘re not allowed to take any of your hard earned money out of the company until you reach those 12 mil capitalization.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        Last I checked, you don’t need nearly as much to open a credit union, I think in the hundreds of thousands. But I agree, the barrier is way too high for banking.

        I’m not sure what this has to do with a game engine though.

      • Ubermeisters@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        Your comment, if thought about critically, doesn’t seem as well informed as you obviously wanted to come across

        • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          I‘d very much appreciate if you didn’t assume what I wanted to achieve with my post.

          To clarify it for you:

          • I think this unity thing is horrendous
          • It obviously is part of the enshittification pattern we see everywhere
          • I feel like this goes far beyond tech
          • I never wanted to „come across“ a certain way. I‘m autistic have a very different perception of things. My goal in a post is to inform or get informed.

          Maybe this helps to clear things up. Feel free to correct things you think are inaccurate.

    • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      31·
      10 months ago

      Godot as an alternative raises some interesting questions. Are there substantial benefits to Unity over Godot? And how many outraged software developers would we need to bridge that gap?

  • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
    261·
    10 months ago

    Not even an anonymous threat, which could have been implied by the initial reporting. Riccitiello used this opportunity to cancel a town hall event where he could be confronted with these controversial changes by overblowing the actual threat to his company and his employees. Wow, coming from this sleazebag I’m not surprised.

    EDIT

    So now, anytime a CEO or representative uses death threats and/or retaliation against employees as an excuse to interrupt company functions it could be considered entirely suspect. He’s not the first to do it recently (fuck you u/Spez), but this doesn’t help respond against actual credible threats to people from disgruntled users.