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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> So you're suggesting that GvR *WILLINGLY* left a global, and
> well established giant, to work for a tiny start-up because
> his bosses refused to switch from Python2 to (his new baby)
> Pyhton3?
>
> So, let me get this strait: he wasn't fired, *HE QUIT*???

It's even still plausible if you just cut everything after the
"because" from that first sentence. People leave large companies like
Google to go work at start-ups where they believe they'll be able to
have more impact all the time.

It's certainly much more likely than your speculation that he was
fired because of Python 3. Google isn't in the habit of firing
talented engineers for idiotically trivial reasons so they can be
scooped up by the competition.

> I wonder if he's considered the possibility that Google may
> swoop in an purchase Dropbox at some time in the near
> future, and he could find himself working for google once
> again.

Google already has a cloud storage service.

> And you know what would be the ultimate form of
> irony, if they forced him to migrate Dropbox *BACK* to
> Python2!

What a ridiculous waste of programmer time that would be.