No company will ever say they will never do something in the future like that because the future is unknowable and who knows what circumstances will come up.
What we can hope for is they learned something from this so when a hard decision like this must be made they’ll use a different approach.
Good to hear. They have done that in the past, though, I've read a few first-hand accounts of it (and sadly I cannot find them now so take it with a grain of salt, of course). Perhaps it was just early-days.
It might be OK. Hopefully the kids are still curious, but maybe about different things. I'm happy to keep their infrastructure running if they're willing to do great things with it.
I fully expect they will. But I want to actually see it happen instead of just blindly regurgitating corporate statements that it won't be a worry in the near future.
My fear is that this will be forgotten and then they’ll do it again later (new management, new cost pressure, whatever).
And it may happen without notice, or being older without so many people pushing for it.
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