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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_
by pj 17y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor
I don't believe either groups were stupid, merely ignorant of the other's existence. But maybe I'm stupid and they are both malicious.
- smhinsey 17y agoThat Hanlon was a real optimist, eh? I think that in the super-competitive startup arena, emotions are going to run high. When you have so much at stake, it's easy to overreact. I sometimes wish I could have a mental equivalent of my ubiquitous work-email-client 1 minute delayed send rule.
- pg 17y agoThe guys from Eatlime filed a federal trademark application for the name "Twitvid" the day Twitvid was covered in TechCrunch. They themselves weren't launched yet, and they filed a trademark application for a name they knew another company was already using. That is not mere carelessness. Up to a certain point the Eatlime guys were unaware of Twitvid, but that point was probably several days before the TechCrunch article.