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Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by fart_pickle@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat.

Is that better or worse?

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 98 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I swear they treat CEO's who tank companies like they do priests who molest kids and just send them to another place whenever they get caught.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's corporatism in a wider sense. Existed since times immemorial. It's a systemic problem, that is, defined by architecture.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Corporatism like this is fairly new. Creating bullshit positions for your followers is an old tradition among kings and other rulers, but putting people from one leadership position where they fucked up into the next is only here since the capitalist class established itself after the industrial revolution.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Actually the former included the latter. So no.

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you need someone to implement a greedy, extreme position then "pull back to something reasonable" (still further than original), he's on the short list.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (2 children)

red hat

Given their decision making in 22-23 especially, yikes

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

but if they isn't anymore in red hat so they didn't take the 22/23 decisions, no?

[–] chrishazfun@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That's more at the feet of current leadership at IBM/RH, he resigned in mid 2021. The licensing move could've also been made and it just took a while to be official though so who knows.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Gamers don't know who he is so probably better

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People in software know who people in software are. Unity is for software developers, not gamers.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't have gotten nearly as much visibility if gamers didn't know who the dude was

[–] Devious_Thoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Probably hasn't had a chance to fuck up publicly, hopefully he pays attention to the news and doesn't want to be unpopular