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Why is a YC company not held to a better standard? This is poor form.
by 0des 5y ago
Why is a YC company not held to a better standard? This is poor form.
- jplasmeier 5y agoWhat makes you think YC companies have any different standards than the rest of the corporate world? If anything startups are deliberately held to a lower standard on the justification of “disruption”. YC is a way to make people money first and foremost. Don’t be shocked.
- tedunangst 5y agoYC considers "no assholes" to be a competitive advantage.
- dang 5y agoI've emailed them. I'm sure it's unintentional but yeah it's bad and should be fixed pronto.
- jeroenhd 5y agoI hope your faith in them will turn out to be justified, but there is clearly a pattern to their behaviour. In a previous takedown reported here just five months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239594), the takedown was not reversed either; for some projects the takedown was likely legitimate, but for others this was obvious abuse. The founder states in a comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31091354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31091354) that "[their] intention with this initiative is to takedown plagiarized code snippets or solutions to company assessments", practically admitting that they are knowingly abusing DMCA systems to execute takedowns of other people's code. They can definitely take down plagiarized code snippets under the DMCA, but they have no right to take down "solutions to company assessments".
- 0des 5y agoThanks for getting in touch, hope it works out. I'm chalking it up to heat of the moment, mistake, poor judgement in a time of strife.