thraway2016

They don't need to appeal to any of these suits. Just the technical decision-makers, whose express job it is to choose solutions on their technical merits, not their spurious emotional reactions.

If you are in that role, and you permit the name of a vendor to trump the actual merits of the vendor's product, you should never have been trusted with decision-making authority in the first place, and any competitors who don't harbor your particular emotional hangups will get the better of you, and you won't be long for your position anyway.

Cockroach Labs is not selling to the end-consumer. They're selling to people whose job it is to behave like Vulcans. In this particular market, it doesn't matter what the name is.

It's to expected with the massive infestation of HN by suits and khakis in the last few years.

The truth is: because a H1 rep went on Risky Business and did not deliver a very good performance.

Patrick, who is absolutely okay with H1 having FiveEye clients like the US DoD, has a very serious problem with them also servicing an obscure spyware application provider. Because, I suppose, being murder-droned by a panopticon hegemony is much better than getting yelled at by an angry spouse?

A consistently applied policy would see ties with ALL surveillance entities severed.

The prescient Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

for asynchronous messaging, agl had something really promising with pond, but for "reasons" decided to abandon it, and nobody bothered to continue its development.

Remote access to DMA capability is just batshit insanity.