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Did I really need to put a "sadly" in front?

Guns-drawn raids are just how things are done in the US these days.

Entrepreneurship will be a fantastic experience for you, succeed or fail. It's exactly what you need.

Thank god; another way to share photos with my friends.

Evolution doesn't ask itself whether it needs to "bother".

My main complaint is that services such as yours are not extending XMPP! By god, it's begging for it! Imagine if every e-mail service was a walled garden. Differentiate on features and user experience and otherwise embrace interoperability and you'll be better than the vast majority of chat startups out there.

Acting unilaterally when your decisions affect others deserves no praise. It's the kind of egocentric dick-waving we saw in the US in the 90s (again in the 2.0 bubble), and plenty of companies crashed and burned because of it. We need fewer glorious cult-leaders in business, not more.

Your comment is spoken from a perspective that favors the investors... not the worker who is seeking better employment.

Workers should be free to seek to improve their lives without old white men making back-room deals against them. In this regard the tech industry is no more progressive than any other, and that's incredibly disappointing. We're supposed to be such an intelligent bunch.

...why?

Why would medicine be unlike any other science? Imagine if the standard model was someone's intellectual property.

Owning abstractions is mind-bogglingly absurd, akin to thoughtcrime.

How depressing.

> Which, fine, more power to them.

Really? We as a society have the knowledge necessary to cure a person's illness and yet they go untreated.

In the absence of IP legal protection, this would be a non-issue.