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This is a good and thoughtful response. As much as we’d like to get mad at it, there’s not much more to do.

You do know that Garry banned a bunch of people who criticised him over this.

And that when told about PearAI violating the terms of the license said to the effect "who cares it's open source" as though none of this actually matters and it's just a bunch of nerds over-reacting.

It's arguably worse than what PearAI did in the first place.

I was one of the people Garry blocked on Twitter and after this article was published, I was unblocked. So to be fair, it does seem like Garry has taken steps to reverse that.

I had the same reaction. I'm usually quite cynical about these things and was ready to scoff at it, but I thought that was about the most you could really accomplish in an apology.

The key to me was that it wasn't focused on how sorry YC is, it focused on how great of a team Continue is. Far too many apology posts are just another way to get attention, so it was nice to see that attention directed at the party receiving the apology.

Ideally it would have a section on next steps and how YC will prevent such events in the future, but definitely preferable over a corporate nonapology.

But we’re not YC shareholders, they don’t owe us anything. I understand the point, it’d be nice to read how they might prevent it, but it’d be completely informative.

Of course they don’t owe us anything. But when you back something that ends up being a big problem people generally won’t trust your judgement until you explain the how and the why. You are perfectly at liberty to not do that, but then you get to deal with the consequences of that.

Your simping is both strange and bewildering.

We are absolutely taking steps internally to prevent this.

This is great. But as I said in another comment, you guys don’t owe us anything, we’re not YC shareholders.

But YC is so prevalent in the hacker community that is kinda associated with Open Source, is like we feel entitled to ask for explanations when in reality it’s just a private business. It’s an interesting phenomenon.

I think it’d be great if you could keep transparency in order to keep encouraging founders to apply to YC, but we have to learn that’s just an option.

Rescind the funding? Address that some partners or internal processes clearly failed?

Nah, nothing to be done.

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