alt Hacker NewsJust to add to the picture, you can read here one of Cringely's final columns:
https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/
Count up the number of comments from Jeremy Reimer - the author of this HN linked article - he cares - a lot about this.
The Kickstarter was more than 10 years ago - 2015. It raised $35,452. 10 years and the trolls maintain their nuclear level outrage.
Go read the announcement post:
https://www.cringely.com/2015/09/29/the-cringely-boys-kickst...
The situation seems symmetrical to me. However "easy" it would have been for people to stop hounding him for updates, it would have been the same level of "ease" for Cringely to have simply fessed up that the project was toast.