This is a pretty poor attack on a startup that managed to get itself acquired for more than most of us will ever sell a company for.

As Peter Thiel says there are two kinds of companies: companies who go from 0 to 1 (SpaceX, Tesla, maybe Google) and companies who go from 1 to n (globalization of technology).

Summly clearly fits into the 1 to n bucket, but so do a lot of other companies. Would people be pissed if Github got acquired? I see no outcry for a $100 million dollar round of funding for a company that is built upon open source software.

How is github any different than Summly from a 'renting' of technology perspective?