There’s an interesting story from the lead engineer to make OS X originally compliant:

> I was asked if I could lead a team to do #1. I said “Yes, under the condition that I could use the compliance project as a hammer to force other parts of the organization to make changes in their own code base, and that I could play it rather loose with commit rules regarding what it said in the bugs database for a given code change, and what the given code change actually did, in addition to what it said in the bugs database”.

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> We were promised 1/10th of the $200 million, or $20 million in stock, on completion. $10 million to me, $5 million to Ed, and $5 million to Karen Crippes, who was looking for a home in Mac OS X development, I knew was an amazing engineer, and who could be roped into being technical liaison and periodically kicking off the tests and complaining to Ed and I about things not passing.

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Source: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

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sgerenser 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And if you read further in the comments, he never got the stock. The executive who promised it to him “took it for himself.”

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Jcampuzano2 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And left his wife for an HR person, can't forget that. Lol sounds like a shitshow all around when it comes to execs but wouldn't be surprised.

Guess it shows that when it comes to compensation promises always get it in writing.

	▲	yard2010 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's always true but especially when working with so many psychopaths

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crazygringo 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Damn. Don't ever agree to something like this without getting it in writing.

If they balk, it's precisely because they want to be able to be free to cheat you out of it once the work is done.

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alberth 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Where do you see that?

Sorry, I’m probably missing the obvious.

	▲	mikestew 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s in there: “The executive who agreed to the deal left his wife for an HR person, and took the stock for himself. Never every make a handshake deal with a person you trust, because that trust will not last.”

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nicce 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Further below:

> Also, the tech lead has to fix anything no one else fixes, or no one else can fix, because they are the DRI (Directly Responsible Individual).

How many tech lead/project manager can say that they are capable for this in these days? It feels like based on my observations that other skills are taking priority on management/lead side.

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0xFEE1DEAD 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you for sharing, what an interesting read.