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by olalonde 38 days ago
It's weird that he even had the ability to create public repos inside the official Google Workspace org then. That said, I agree that some information seems to be missing. Like, why not instead fire the guy who announced the project on X and who I presume is his manager? Confusing.
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whstl 38 days ago
The manager, Addy Osmani, also reportedly left Google, which is interesting.

Also more interesting is the fact the repository is still alive and kicking.

I can see Google firing the dev but HR/Legal giving a bogus reason, as is regular practice.

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olalonde 38 days ago
Interesting. I did a bit of digging and the disclaimer about not being an officially supported Google product was there from the start. There was briefly a logo that used Google colors[0] but it seems extreme to fire someone over such a small misstep. I'd say either HR gave him a bogus reason like you said or he's not telling the whole story.

[0] https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/blob/1991d536b4a45e60...

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