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First, he did not call the founders unprincipled, he said that this is not a principled way to run a business. I know that's splitting hairs, but I think the di
by hluska 11y ago
First, he did not call the founders unprincipled, he said that this is not a principled way to run a business. I know that's splitting hairs, but I think the distinction is important. Granted, I just told a doctor about a grammatical error in her Emergency Department's mission statement, so this may just be a symptom... :)
Second, the surrounding events do matter. They claimed to be raising money to build a product. Then, their efforts bogged down because they tried to build an entirely different product than they originally promised.
Where I'm from, we call that lying. But, for fun, let's check out their own words:
Q: Why did Matchstick select Microsoft PlayReady ?
A: Matchstick intends to offer DRM on its platform and bring premium content to its users in the quickest timeframe possible. Microsoft PlayReady offers a mature technology, has relationship with premium content providers and is quick to deploy on the Firefox OS platform.
Funny how a solution that is so 'quick to deploy' could sink the whole ship, hey?
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> Second, the surrounding events do matter. They claimed to be raising money to build a product. Then, their efforts bogged down because they tried to build an entirely different product than they originally promised. Let's put it differently: they raised money to build X. They attempted to build X+Y, they fucked up. Maybe they were dishonest about their plans. But in the end, they decided to give the X money back, which raises them above 99% of companies out there.