CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust

CodeWeavers, the company known for its CrossOver software for running Windows games/apps on Linux / macOS / Chrome OS and in turn being the main corporate backer to the Wine project, is now transitioned to being an employee ownership trust. This comes with Jeremy White deciding to leave the company after 27 years...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CodeWeavers-Employee-Trust

[mirmirmir]

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[kiffmet]

Ahh, this is how all companies should be structured and is probably as close to socialism as we can get. *plays sovjet hymn* Employees being able to partake in decision making is awesome and prevents exploitation and bad work environments.

[ridge]

An employee ownership is a good move. Appreciate all he has done for Wine and CodeWeavers. 🫡🫡🫡

[NSLW]

Ahh, this is how all companies should be structured and is probably as close to socialism as we can get. *plays sovjet hymn* Employees being able to partake in decision making is awesome and prevents exploitation and bad work environments.

Grass always seems greener on the other side. One never knows what kind of exploitation/inefficiencies lurk behind socialism. Maybe not the same as in capitalism but equally impactful.

[shmerl]

Ahh, this is how all companies should be structured and is probably as close to socialism as we can get. *plays sovjet hymn* Employees being able to partake in decision making is awesome and prevents exploitation and bad work environments.

Except soviets had nothing to do with employees partaking in decision making They were just one huge monopoly corpo controlled by the government.

[Serafean]

Grass always seems greener on the other side. One never knows what kind of exploitation/inefficiencies lurk behind socialism. Maybe not the same as in capitalism but equally impactful.

Grass seems greener on the other side depending on what you want. If you want a job you care about, employee ownership sounds better. If you just want an income, top down corporation is better. I'm # 2

[CochainComplex]

Ahh, this is how all companies should be structured and is probably as close to socialism as we can get. *plays sovjet hymn* Employees being able to partake in decision making is awesome and prevents exploitation and bad work environments.

Tucker is this you? Well after "leaving" Fox News you need some new plattform I guess

[kiffmet]

shmerl Many great thinkers that worked out the philosophies and goals of socialism were of soviet origin - i.e. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. That practical implementations greatly deviated from the original concept and were combined with dictatorship, is unfortunate. I'm also more a proponent for employee-ownership instead of govt. ownership.

Anyhow, influences from socialism are the reason why Europe has free access to health care and higher education, aswell as laid the foundation of the workers' movement which established things like workers' rights - i.e. 40hr week, paid sick leave, the right to unionize, etc. Opponents from the 40hr week tried to frame it as an apocalyptic mistake. Now it's a standard and celebrated as one of the most important social achievements of the last decades.

Properly implemented socialism can achieve A LOT in a very short timespan. An example for this would be the historical period of Burkina Faso, where Thomas Sankara was president. The access to basic needs and healthcare, workers conditions and pay, aswell as the level of education skyrocketed. Sankara was then assasinated by a political rival during a coup. Many of the advancements then were undone, the country still hasn't recovered as of today.

[Estranged1906]

Except soviets had nothing to do with employees partaking in decision making They were just one huge monopoly corpo controlled by the government.

Correct but don't forget to mention the slave labour (Gulags et al.)