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When Marak sent me the email, I read it as a "Hi, I built Faker, might you be interested in acquiring it?". I responded with a "yes, that could be interesting,
by dvdhsu 5y ago
When Marak sent me the email, I read it as a "Hi, I built Faker, might you be interested in acquiring it?". I responded with a "yes, that could be interesting, give me a day to work on this". In the end, we decided that acquiring Faker didn't make sense, and I'm sorry to Marak for not sending a follow-up email telling him we weren't interested. In this case, the content is different (i.e. we are potentially abusing OSS), which is why I’m responding to this.
(FWIW, I typically receive 50 - 100 sales emails every day. I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested! This does not excuse my behavior in this particular case, and I’m sorry to Marak for not following up.)
- tiltrus 5y agoThis really doesn't sound convincing at all.
- oh_sigh 5y agoFor a counterpoint of equivalent value - I'm fairly convinced.
- bryan0 5y agoUh, but he followed up with you a week later and you again decided not to reply.
- austhrow743 5y agoYes, people cold emailing you to sell you things often follow up.
- bryan0 5y agoHis explanation was that he “forgot” to reply. Just be honest then and say he put him on ignore after evaluating. > I do try and reply to the ones that look interesting, but I do forget to follow-up sometimes if we're not interested!
- ClashTheBunny 5y agoChances would be that I would recognize the sender and then immediately archive the email and not even read it...
- StavrosK 5y agoI wasn't convinced by this reply either, then I went back and read the actual email. It doesn't mention the problem at all, it's a straightforward sales pitch. Even I ignore tons of those regularly, it's kind of dishonest on the part of the developer to say "oh they caused me a problem, I emailed them and they didn't reply" without mentioning that he didn't mention the problem in the email at all!
- slver 5y agoFrankly the author of Faker seems like he went into this project with the clear intention of profit, but by releasing it for free, and then pressuring people into giving him money. It's almost predatory. Especially since Faker.js doesn't do anything that much useful which can't be replicated in trivial time. You use it because it's available, like we all do with MIT licensed libraries.