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HN, of all places, may take the trouble to actually make a small statement however. People would actually notice here.

• gist 10y ago
  > may take the trouble to actually make a small statement however Another move in the direction of political correctness and making decisions according to optics. Have you considered valid business purposes for a company doing a particular act or are you just deciding that everyone thinks this was a "scumbag" action?
  • Nullabillity 10y ago
    Have you considered valid personal purposes for shoplifting or are you just deciding deciding that everyone thinks this was a "scumbag" action?
  • arcticfox 10y ago
    Supporting a non-profit organization working for a more secure Internet could easily fall under a "valid business purpose" for a site like HN. HN's entire business mandate, such as it is, seems to be to encourage technological growth in the interest of profiting tangentially off the growing pie. Edit: as for whether Comodo had a "valid business purpose" for the action, sure, in the same sense that patent trolls have a valid business purpose. Read this statement by their CEO: https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anything-and-everything/shame-on-you-comodo-t115958.0.html;msg837411 https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anyth... It's surreal. He tries to shift the blame to Let's Encrypt for choosing 90 days as their default certificate expiration date, somehow implying that 90 days is Comodo IP.