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spoaceman7777last Wednesday at 2:06 AM1 replyview on HN

Wow. The only people who could have decided to write and publish this article are the same people who did all of the other insane things in that article.

It reads as though they're begging people not to bail them out.

Like... in all of that, there isn't a single detail about how they aren't going to kneecap themselves again. (And, considering their track record, that seems inevitable, if not imminent.)

This should be taken down, and whoever has been doing these things should write up a plan for what they might do to prevent the truly obscene mismanagement laid out in the article from continuing. Perhaps ask for advice? Or, more likely, stop ignoring advice that many people must surely have been giving them.

Without that, they are seemingly just going to continue wasting the time, and money, of anyone who might get involved with their project.

(Also, the random pot shot at open source in general was unnecessary, irrelevant, and bitter. If they wanted people who use their software to give something back, then they should have licensed it accordingly.)


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globular-toastlast Wednesday at 6:07 AM

I tried to find their code and found one thing MIT licensed and others with no licence in the repo at all. They complain about big companies freeloading their work. That's just what happens with permissive licensing. You've explicitly given them permission to do that. It sounds like yet another case of should have used GPL.