But the bigger point is that you conflate selling to a bigger company with more resources with “f[ing] their users,” which is just naive.
But the bigger point is that you conflate selling to a bigger company with more resources with “f[ing] their users,” which is just naive.
"I don't owe anybody anything"
"You're just naive"
These are the rationalizations used to justify antisocial behavior. It's nihilistic and destructive to society.
I've heard people espouse this kind of logic even when talking about employees who have worked for them for 20 years. They exchanged labor for pay and therefore nobody owes anybody anything. Yeah, right.
It's not naive, it's how these things go the majority of the time. I think that expecting otherwise is a bit naive.
Because that's what happened to a lot of companies who got bought out - eventually the MBA sharks wanted their returns. Minecraft, MySQL, StackOverflow, Tumblr, Reddit, TwiXXer, they all fell victim to enshittification.
Others just ossified with steady streams of Big Money coming in like Mozilla, Wikipedia or a ton of stuff from Adobe. Or they got closed down by Big Corp because they were no longer "profitable" enough like Google Reader.
Personally, I'm happy enough that HN still exists.
What did they do exactly? My music is there I bought years back.