[szundi]

Parent commenter's point is that they have to fire some good performing to make it legally a layoff, not a mass firing.

[throwtothemoon]

The key definition people are missing here is "good performing". What does that mean? In times of macroeconomic certainty, companies are going to focus on core revenue generating business. It makes a ton of sense that some OSS folks got fired, because OSS doesn't generate revenue. Managed services generate revenue.