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I couldn't disagree more. Most users didn't even pay, for goodness' sake.

• orestarod 6y ago
  Was there a choice to pay??
  • bllguo 6y ago
    ok that's my bad - i thought they had an paid enterprise plan. So actually _nobody_ paid. That makes me believe even more strongly that the founders do not owe users anything.
    • kelnos 6y ago
      It's a shame you feel that way; personally I feel that avoiding responsibility for your actions toward others is one of the big ills in our society. Suggesting that there's only responsibility if money changes hands merely makes me sadder.
• kelnos 6y ago
  If you decide to base your business model on unpaid users, that doesn't absolve you of responsibility for them. You're still getting something from them, whether it's user numbers that impress prospective investors, or usage data that you can sell to third parties, or whatever. If you're building a security- and privacy-focused product, selling it to a company that has demonstrated several times that they don't care about their users' security or privacy is unethical, regardless of how you slice it. It makes the world poorer, and the internet less safe for the people who use it. This has nothing to do with payment.