> But it did not seem like Lance was working with IBM so much as he was working for IBM Ugh. I was a TP and then SL customer for years. Having somebody control

> But it did not seem like Lance was working with IBM so much as he was working for IBM Ugh. I was a TP and then SL customer for years. Having somebody controlling Lance strikes me as a very bad idea. Maybe a good way to trigger the founding of another Dallas-based provider. I kind of wondered about this when IBM bought them, but I'd been entirely Linode-based for a while so didn't have much stake in things.