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As a pre-emptive note for other HN'ers: 1) I'm not annoyed that Steve's built a competing product. That would be like the developers of Squid being annoyed tha
by namecast 12y ago
As a pre-emptive note for other HN'ers:
1) I'm not annoyed that Steve's built a competing product. That would be like the developers of Squid being annoyed that Varnish exists, or lighttpd and Nginx, or.... you get the picture. Competition in the free market and especially amongst software providers is good and healthy, and saying otherwise is tantamount to saying that software is sacred. That way lies patent madness. Besides, LuaDNS and I'm sure others have similar products. I was actually really excited about this, as it validates our market, theoretically - until I recognized the name and visited the site.
2) I'm furious that Steve blogged about us, mailed us directly - so he damn sure knows about us and our product - and then directly lifted our copy and messaging, and is now presenting this as an original concept on a Show HN post. That's where this all falls apart. Just - not cool, buddy. Not. Cool.
- randunel 12y agoIf Steve replies, I'm bookmarking this :D
- stevekemp 12y agoPlease do bear with me .. 23:50 here and I need sleep.
- stevekemp 12y ago1. Good :) 2. What you call "lifting our copy" I call "Making the obvious comparison" - given the implementation. If it were a whole page, rather than one identical sentence, I'd be more apologetic. That said I am genuinely sorry that this has caused annoyance, and I didn't mean to imply this was a genuinely new idea - just a new implementation of a good idea. Hopefully this is .. better? That