isitmadeofglass

It’s great to see Matt Levine chime in, he often has an incredible well thought out and informed view that is also just incredibly funny to read. That said I am disappointed that he latched on the the entirely imagined idea that this was “profit va safety” which isn’t in any way supported by anything and is just baseless speculation cooked up by spectators.

It’s even directly contrary to the statements from the board and the new CEO, and there is no reason to believe they would lie and keep it hidden if this was in fact their reasoning.

> it became apparent that the dependencies I was relying on—or considering for use—simply didn't meet the necessary standards

Basically didn’t he just raise money with promises of features, then go to the underlying libs authors with a “you should do all these features for free, so I can argue why all the money I got for them was with it” while doing shit-all himself?

So, basically he’s rounding off his attempt at fundraising on trying to get someone else to do the actual work for free with a “I’m sorry, but I’m keeping the money and not delivering anything”?

> What was left to do?

> Integration with a low-level HTTP library ready for the task.

You mean literally all the actual work to make the product do anything useful…

No one took issue with requests, just being a thin usability interface on top of other peoples work, because it was free and open source and didn’t raise funds to provide the claimed functionality. But the second you start raising funds and don’t want to spend a single dollar on the people who do all of the real work, your a pos, and deserve all the criticism. The second you take the money but bail on the project because others won’t do the work for free for you, you become a con-man.