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Is this type of comment considered OK in this community? I'm all for a little competition, but it feels a bit dirty to me to congratulate a company while callin
by sakai 15y ago
Is this type of comment considered OK in this community? I'm all for a little competition, but it feels a bit dirty to me to congratulate a company while calling their product a "[less] sophisticated and complete solution."
- rdl 14y agoIf it were a startup talking about how they're better for specific types of problems (e.g. "if you're an EC2 fan but need to host in Russia, contact me..."), I think that's totally ok. Big company vs. startup, general vs. niche, non hn company vs. hn company (where "hn company" is "people on hacker news regularly, or YC companies), traditional vs. open source/free, etc. are all points in favor of making it ok. I'm not sure in this case (I know lots of people at Splunk, Adammark/sensage, and other SIEM companies, and IMO they're all useful in some cases, and too expensive for a lot of cases).