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Does "really happy" include injecting your ads into our editors by hijacking open source projects? Because that makes me really unhappy.
by erichurkman 8y ago
Does "really happy" include injecting your ads into our editors by hijacking open source projects? Because that makes me really unhappy.
- AlexMoffat 8y agoAh yes, now I remember where I'd heard about kite.
- aliswe 8y agoDunno if I should enter this seemingly infected argument, but I only now read up a bit on it: https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-that-you-do-not-piss-off-open-source-programmers/ https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-tha... While I agree with your sentiment that the changes were intrusive, from the article they weren't actually ads in the strict sense. No Ugg Boots or Rolex Replicas. They were helpful links to knowledge articles or documentation, from what I gather. Could be wrong though. That's gotta be a tough position to be in, having raised ~ a lot of money and having the pressure to do a suboptimal move to please the investors.