buildorfail

not here to discuss ethics. Just making the point that this is extremely typical and far more common than you may think.

you did not read the first line of my post. My point is just that this is nothing new...

I do not want to argue if this type of stuff is good or bad. But I do want to point out to you all that list of tech gods is full of similar stories. Off the top of my head:

MySpace started out purely through spam...Tim Ferris started out in online supplement sales...People complained about Plaxo doing black hat stuff... they sold ok. People complained about Zynga ripping off other games and about breaking every Facebook platform rule there was... look at Mark Pincus now. People complained about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stealing their idea... he does not care.

That is pretty awesome. Nice work. It also keeps the gears turning in your head to constantly re-invest and re-invent

wow that is super cool. what did you use to make that?