alt Hacker NewsHow did Joel sell out? Curious as I’m not aware of any monetary changes. I watched Joel several times support completely brain dead policies in the meta discussions which really set the rules and tone. So my respect there is low.
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gfhifd42 • last Sunday at 12:43 AM
He and Jeff made it abundantly clear their mission was to destroy the sex change site because that site was immoral for monetizing the benevolence of the community who answered the questions.
"Knowledge should be free" they said. "You shouldn't make money off stuff like this," they said.
Plenty of links and backstory in my other comments.
They literally sold: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/stack-overflow-sold-...