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Hmm. It's brutal but not "wrong", by which I think the poster means "unfair & anti-competitive". The point of this platform is to make it easier to write appli
by aristus 19y ago
Hmm. It's brutal but not "wrong", by which I think the poster means "unfair & anti-competitive".
The point of this platform is to make it easier to write applications. They proved it by cloning the poster child for the last prod-hype-tivity platform, RoR. Life goes on.
- gaika 19y agoWrong in the sense that is not how you make your platform attractive to developers. What happened to "do not be evil"?
- nilobject 19y agoImitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- kirubakaran 19y agoSome might prefer money over flattery :)
- gaika 19y agoOh, that's must be why they took it down.
- akkartik 19y agoReally?! If one of the example apps for your platform is a clone of an existing -- and profitable -- service, your platform's suddenly super-attractive to this developer.
- gaika 19y agoThis is exactly how Microsoft did business: clone, acquire, or kill competitors that had any success running on their platform.