goodwill. And he was looking for someone to take over 'running it', surely offloading monitoring it/any kind of server upkeep and a department of NYT games ppl making the clues etc would be helpful at this point. Hats off to him.
Sounds like he fired every single employee on the spot. I can see the logic behind redirecting the site to a static asset when you have nobody to manage it.
[former fosshost member] We did not (as far as I'm aware) have a treasurer, but did have a volunteer as the CFO. After appointing them, the CEO never fully gave them access to finances and after many requests, eventually just started taking away financial access from everyone else too.
VMware (Pivotal, if I remember correctly, which was part of VMware) hired him for a while, about a decade ago. They did a huge mistake as well, because they didn't take advantage of him at all.
He was certainly allowed to work on it on his own time. He just was no longer being paid by Red Hat to work on it, or to travel to conferences/conventions to work on it.
Well, he's never been a team player and he must be doing it out of spite for whatever ego driven reason. He refused to transfer the domain to the rest of the team awhile ago.
It's quite clear that Spolsky simply cashed out and went home.
The best way forward is for someone with a good reputation to take the content and launch a new server, as Spolsky himself always said should happen when SO one day jumps the shark.
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