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After 27 years, Jeremy White is leaving CodeWeavers, the company who oversee and fund Wine development and also work on Proton with Valve for the Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

This is going to be a big change for their company, with it moving over to an Employee Ownership Trust, which sounds like a really nice move overall. This ensures the company works for the staff and the community, giving employees more of a say in how it runs and a share of profits too.

Announced in a press release and a personal blog post from White, the new CEO will be James Ramey who has been the long time president of the company and Ulrich Czekalla, their director of development, moving over to President. However, White will remain as Chairman of the Board so not entirely gone.

“We believe that this trust represents a new model for corporate governance,” said White. “The trust allows the company to be run for the benefit of the staff and the broader community, rather than for shareholder profit. I believe this will create a more sustainable, ethical, and equitable business.”

“I'm looking forward to seeing this in practice!” said Proton lead developer Arek Hiler. “The relationship with many employers is very one-sided—employees are there to generate value for the owners and can be made redundant on shareholders' whim. With this change, I know the company has my back. Not only is it more democratic, but profits will go to the employees who generate them.”

Seems like their team are happy with the move, so hopefully this will help keep Wine and Proton development going strong long into the future.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Purple Library Guy May 22, 2023
Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm not for all this "new age" "feel good" fad stuff -- tried & true is fine -- having a traditional job roles for income is just fine too with hierarchical structure. If you can pull off the "Valve Bee Hive" that's fine too -- just keep all the fad --isms out of my damn free software please.
Your damn free software is a fad-ism.
FSFmember May 23, 2023
Registered to post this (admittedly adding nothing of value, apologies for that, just felt like it):
Just wow - incredible. I've long admired CodeWeavers, but this is a next and dare I say unprecedented, step forward.
Very interested in how this'll play out in the long term. Remind me in 5 years to see how it went with this company.
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