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I found it interesting and not at all bitter.

The point was "Once they've bought it, promises don't matter", and there were two interesting stories that illustrate this point.

/shrugs

We all know yahoo are going to fuck up tumblr, and the promises that they've made won't matter.

> He does a disservice to other "older" developers and technology buffs, as not all of us want to regale you with tales of the old days...

Once upon a time, we enjoyed exchanging stories as a way of sharing and building on the wisdom learned from hard knocks, bootstrapping one another. Pretty sure that's how civilization progresses.

It's also how civilization stagnates. Stories have value, but not to diminish someone else's achievement or to argue against progress.

Blah blah blah.