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No one is naive about this. I think we all know why he made this announcement today. I think in a business relationship (just like in almost any relationship),
by swang 11y ago
No one is naive about this. I think we all know why he made this announcement today.
I think in a business relationship (just like in almost any relationship), you don't want to get screwed over. Developers got screwed over by Twitter.
You want this to be a business relationship? Then write out an SLA for developers. Otherwise apologizing and inviting developers is just lip service.
I love what they have done with open source, I just don't trust them enough to develop stuff on their api (short of twitter bots and the like).
- libria 11y agoThe problem is that some of these responses contain words like "trust" and "morally bankrupt" which shows we're still emotionally reliant on some unwritten rules of fair treatment. We have to conduct business without that emotion. Show me a company who will not screw you, given the right (wrong?) circumstance. Yet we must partner with some of them temporarily to succeed. We should be gambling on whether or not they can build a viable business going forward, not whether they will ditch us in tough times because they absolutely will.
- Dylan16807 11y ago[lack of] trust is just a measure of likelihood of them violating promises. It's not naivete. "Morally bankrupt" is just an insulting way of saying the company is much more likely to abandon agreements, and will do so with weaker justification. And plenty of companies won't ditch you in tough times. Imagine if insurance tried to just walk away when you filed a claim.