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The last few ArsTechnica articles posted to HN have had really terrible writing. This one doesn't even introduce the patent troll (Lumen View), but just mentio
by jlarocco 13y ago
The last few ArsTechnica articles posted to HN have had really terrible writing.
This one doesn't even introduce the patent troll (Lumen View), but just mentions their name with no introduction, as if everybody will know who they are and that they're the patent troll.
Ars used to be really good, it's unfortunate their writing quality is getting so bad.
- eksith 13y agoI don't know if the article was edited after you made this post, but Lumen View was introduced further down the article. Lumen View is owned, at least in part, by Eileen Shapiro, a Boston executive who works at a company called the Hillcrest Group. She has a co-inventor named Steven Mintz, who FindTheView also believes is involved with the operation.
- error54 13y agoI'm with you on this one. I scrolled up a few time to see who Lumen View was and they had never introduced them.
- ep103 13y agoIt mentions that RICO cases against patent "troll" companies have been tried twice before, and both failed, then moves on without any other information. I feel like that information is relevant to this story.
- sbuk 13y agoThere seems to be a new editorial team, and with that tone. As you point out the quality of both the articles and subsequent discussion has dropped considerably. It much more like the Verge now, which IMHO is not necessarily a good thing.