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An amusing take on the recent 37signals/Curebit controversy.
- batista 15y agoAmusing it is not. From the very first header: "Do the same thing other people are doing but charge more because we are hip and edgy..." Really? "they charge more" as grounds for a parody? Go and use something else, nobody forces you to use 37 Signals products -- in fact the huge majority of the world, something around 99,9999% does not. The rest is equally BS. Sour grapes, maybe? What have you done that is successful guys? And who are you? "Registrant: Domains By Proxy, LLC". Yeah, no balls either. Could even have been made by the Curebit guys themselves. They sure know how to reuse others people's assets, after all. (btw, thanks for the downvotes, guy-behind-the-"parody").
- ApolloWire 15y agoI think it's a joke, dude. "Pick a fight ~ But obviously not with us because then our minions will destroy you."
- batista 15y agoOh, and a HN account created on the spot, just to post this BS. Well done.
- namidark 15y agoOnly part I got a chuckle about was the book jab
- ApolloWire 15y agoThe link garnered genuine laughter.
- steventruong 15y agoShould have been 73Signals, not 67. Even Sheldon Cooper would approve!
- jack-r-abbit 15y agoUh... I'm redirected to some really lame site with Paula Deen riding things. Boo!
- selectnull 15y agoAnd by any chance, are you using a Mac?
- jack-r-abbit 15y agonope. you?
- selectnull 15y agoOn my linux machine I was [1] able to access the site. My girlfriend is using Mac and she was redirected to the same site you mentioned. I thought they did that based on user agent, knowing the 37signals folks are Mac fans, it could be a joke on them. But I guess my hypothesis does not hold water. [1] right now the website is down, domain does not resolve edit: fixed typo
- stanislavb 15y agoWell, they've given so such to the community by Ruby on Rails, so they just deserve to be successful. Even if charging more for their products.