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This headline is terrible... it's not that Meta "copied a veteran's app", more like Meta infringed on patents held by Voxer, a veteran-founded company.
by mmastrac 4y ago
This headline is terrible... it's not that Meta "copied a veteran's app", more like Meta infringed on patents held by Voxer, a veteran-founded company.
- choppaface 4y agoYes but the moderation here is very pro big company. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855747 The title was not edited until long after the article fell off the front page despite the thread’s substantial push-back and the GCloud employee sending a request to HN mods. Titles on HN are a reflection of the HN mods personal and financial incentives. Just like any spammy news site, don’t take what YC posts as gospel. (Even if pg has written a gospel …)
- Apocryphon 4y agoVoxer is also well-known enough, at least a decade ago, to be mentioned in the headline. I remember having it for some reason, probably because people I know actually used it in that early era of smartphones.