> This is unnecessarily dismissive. No, it is not. HN has both a "greybeard" audience that will cheer in "Go boring tech" posts and an "hipster" audience that

> This is unnecessarily dismissive. No, it is not. HN has both a "greybeard" audience that will cheer in "Go boring tech" posts and an "hipster" audience that is heavily start-up and disruption focused as GP was saying. When talking about IBM and acquisitions or similar topics, it's usually the second audience that speaks more. That doesn't mean that some acquisition really kill the product, but you don't need to be as big and old as IBM to do that.