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I don't often post on the orange website. But this news was enough to make me want to say congratulations, friend.

Looking back now after almost 20 years (Nov 2009 to now for me), I can see the arc from what node was then to what celld can be now as your thinking has evolved

A distributed operating system running in userspace is the primitive that can break apart the siloing that has become the default across the walled gardens we all operate in

All the best in what's to come

+1 isaacs – Mikeal is why Node.js is the success it is today

Hugs friend; all the hugs. I know now that I will spend much of the rest of my life aspiring to pay forward what he gave to me & to others.

Congrats Matt

Charlie Robbins (CEO and Co-Founder of Nodejitsu) here. I think your thoughts are really poignant. I’d like to make clear that public availability is the absolute top-priority for us over here but we chose to make a couple of choices that other Public Cloud PaaS companies did not. These choices enable us to offer the truly best-of-breed hosting opportunity for Node.js developers:

1. Early on we recognized that we would not exist as a company if the node.js community was not successful. That is why we have built and maintain over 200 open-source modules on npm. 2. Infrastructure agnostic (that’s right, you get to choose where your servers live). 3. Multiple platforms (currently Ubuntu and SmartOS). 4. 100% node.js up and down the stack. This is all we do and I think we do it better than anyone else. We also have provisioning, monitoring, and configuration management tools similar to our jitsu CLI for enterprises. 5. Commitment to immediate support: If you have a problem, you have a problem now, not tomorrow, not 3-days from now. As such, we want to make sure we grew our support team to support increased on-boarding and support requests resulting from public availability. 6. Private cloud support: this is currently where most of our customers reside. We license them software that they run in their datacenter or self-managed IaaS account.

So rest assured we ramping up for a public release. Feel free to email me at charlie [at] nodejitsu [d0t] com if you’d like to talk more.

We (nodejitsu) sponsored NodeSummit, but have no control over nodesummit.com. I have reached out to Charles Beeler (the conference organizer) to make him aware of the issue.

I support Open Source Software because Open Source Software supports me.

I don’t like censorship as much as the next guy, but to compare PIPA/SOPA to the Civil Rights movement is insulting.

Don’t get me wrong this is important, but it’s not in the same boat as destroying the toxic thinking “you’re not as much of a person as I am”

It is live now. We had a lot of repositories to move over on Github. Held us up by about an hour.

How is this more extreme than asking friends to upvote stories? It is simply posting from a different account. I have 15 email accounts for various projects and companies; does that mean I'm a spammer?

Posting from a different account and up voting from multiple accounts are two completely different issues. We have never used fake accounts to artificially upvote anything. Period. Nothing provided suggests otherwise. On the subject of data, if the above is an attempt to justify the original decision it is insufficient.

* How were you able to infer that both accounts were in-fact represented by a single individual?

* When one considers it objectively, two accounts with the same IP Address posting comments to HN on the same thread from different accounts is not necessarily malicious. It simply could be two different computers on the same home or work network. Point in fact, Marak and I were roommates during the early days of Nodejitsu. How would you be able to infer the difference?

Full logs of all relevant messages / comments with dates and IP Addresses included are really the only thing that will be satisfactory, feel free to email me: [email protected].

I still do not see a pattern of malicious behavior or any malicious behavior at all. As I mentioned before, I am very happy to make this water under the bridge, but please stop making false claims in public without providing more than conjecture.