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Hacker News commenters are not the ones making baseless claims about how their product is better than the current market dominator. Hitchens Razor is working j

Hacker News commenters are not the ones making baseless claims about how their product is better than the current market dominator. Hitchens Razor is working just fine in these comments. It reminds me of NFL fans. No one talks trash about the crappy quarterbacks of their opponents teams. Everyone talks trash about Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, Cam Newton, etc. This is also a general negotiating tactic. Start with a bold initial offer, and then negotiate back to what you wanted in the first place.

lambda 9y ago
> Hacker News commenters are not the ones making baseless claims about how their product is better than the current market dominator. Where did anyone say that Fuchsia was better than Linux? The title of this document, "Fuchsia is not Linux", is a play on the "GNU's not Unix" backronym for the GNU project, as well as being a way of pointing out that unlike Android, Fuchsia is an entirely different kernel. I mean, obviously they would write it because they thought it would be better for certain applications than Linux, or better for trying out new ideas, or the like, but I don't see anything claiming that Fuchsia is better. In fact, Fuchsia has been done as a pretty low-key project for a while, slowly opening up parts but without much fanfare, just repositories being available, and slowly posting more documentation like the link in the OP. I don't really see very much marketing about it, just low key releases of code and more technical information to give people a taste and show the direction they're trying to go in.