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"Purchased by" is a clickbait lie. Please can we use the actual title of the actual blog post. Edit: Thanks!
by mst 10y ago
"Purchased by" is a clickbait lie.
Please can we use the actual title of the actual blog post.
Edit: Thanks!
- jlgaddis 10y agoDo you believe that freenode wasn't "purchased"? The details are a bit light but that certainly sounds like what happened -- PIA now "owns" the non-profit entity freenode (and christel scored a job out of it).
- mst 10y agoThere is a significant distinction between "company X hires open source person Y and allows them to spend some of their time on project Z" and "company X now owns project Z". Wild speculation based on "I think it sounds like that" isn't actually constructive. I've had the blog post updated to say "allied with" rather than "joining the family of" in the hopes that people will actually read the words going forwards rather than jumping to conclusions.
- matt4077 10y agoMaybe, if the words were actually informative, there'd be less jumping to conclusion. As it stands, the blog post just isn't very transparent. It mentions PIA "provid[ing] us with opportunities and resources going forward, including an operating budget", and that it is "now officially part of the PIA family". So you have money changing hands, and property changing hands. That doesn't sound like a sale, it's what it is. Unfortunately, it's rather thin on substance regarding future intentions. But I guess it could indeed make sense purely as a pro-bono project with a bit of a PR windfall for PIA.
- mediocrejoker 10y agoLegally allied is a bit vague, no?
- jlgaddis 10y ago> There is a significant distinction between "company X hires open source person Y and allows them to spend some of their time on project Z" and "company X now owns project Z". I completely agree. The former doesn't generally result in a press release and/or public announcement that includes phrases such as "... will continue to operate as a not-for-profit entity under the same management, with the same principles, ...". Personally, I don't care one way or the other whether this was a "purchase" or a "merger" or "alliance" or whatever you want to call it. I have been a freenode user (and, if memory serves, an "occasional financial supporter") since (probably) shortly after it became freenode and I expect that I will continue to be a freenode user in the future (unless something major happens to change that). Vaguely worded announcements and a lack of detail, however, tend to cause things like "wild speculation" and "jumping to conclusions".
- dang 10y agoOk, title changed from "freenode IRC network purchased by VPN company PIA". Submitters: Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait, as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html asks.
- blibble 10y agoit is misleading, it's hard to read the post as anything other than the announcement of an acquisition, once you remove the corporate waffle
- dang 10y agoI understand that reaction and share the dislike of corpspeak. But since someone involved with the project is disputing that interpretation, we should stick to what the post actually says.
- joepie91_ 10y agoShouldn't we then also ask said person to clarify exactly how the interpretation is incorrect? EDIT: Nevermind, seems that was done below.