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It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

• oomkiller 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
  • pbreit 13y ago
    The Wikipedia accounts of both TextDrive and Joyent do not sound accurate to me. Joyent was started a year or so (early 2005) before it acquired TextDrive (late 2005).
    • jacquesct 13y ago
      Both wikipedia records need some good rewriting.
• oriste 13y ago
  See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940
• billturner 13y ago
  I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-textdrive/ http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
  • chimeracoder 13y ago
    That doesn't really seem to paint Joyent in a very favorable light. IMHO, it wasn't a good idea for TextDrive to sell lifetime subscriptions, but if Joyent knew that when they purchased TextDrive, they should have continued to honor them.
    • foltz 13y ago
      TextDrive and Joyent were founded by the same people. Joyent continued to sell "lifetime" plans after it consumed TextDrive. Here's a screenshot ( http://cl.ly/UFhp http://cl.ly/UFhp ) from one of their lifetime offers. Of note: "How long will it last? As long as we exist." At that point, early 2006, TextDrive was a Joyent company. Joyent still exists.