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It's great that the author found a way to continue working on something he loves but there's a tremendously broad spectrum that 'acquired' could technically fall under - from 'sold one license and got a job' to 'my investors bought another beach house and my grandchildren can afford to be fulltime cocaine addicts'. We don't really know where this particular deal falls.
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Misjudged? Not necessarily. While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.
YC may also suffer from an embarrassment of riches, where they have more good startups than they have resources to fund.
Finally, a story in which YC misjudged... :) Congrats...
Misjudged? Not necessarily. While getting acquired is cool for the founders, getting acquired so early is usually not in YC's interest and I doubt they'd have too much regret over (what is likely) a super-small acquisition.
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I'm not sure why my question here is being voted down; the fact that wordpress is famously insecure is hardly controversial. Can some downvoters please explain?
It sounds like you are whining about Wordpress, rather than just commenting on the article. Microsoft Research did a lot of work on Haskell. Does the multitude of Windows viruses make you not want to use Haskell? Probably not. It just doesn't matter.
A question for the AtD folks: Do you have any concerns about being acquired by a company which builds such a famously insecure product? Speaking as someone who cares a lot about security, I'd be concerned about the reputation for poor security "rubbing off" on me.
You mean like it rubbed of on Bill Gates ?
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I'm not sure why my question here is being voted down; the fact that wordpress is famously insecure is hardly controversial. Can some downvoters please explain?
It sounds like you are whining about Wordpress, rather than just commenting on the article. Microsoft Research did a lot of work on Haskell. Does the multitude of Windows viruses make you not want to use Haskell? Probably not. It just doesn't matter.
I fail to see how the original question qualifies as 'whining about Wordpress'.
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You mean like it rubbed of on Bill Gates ?
At my work, not a day goes by when someone doesn't curse Bill Gates.
The point I was trying to make, and which seems to be lost on you, is that it is perfectly possible to have people associate you with insecure code or even to outright dislike you and to sleep very well at night and have half the world kow-tow to you.
The people at your work are no doubt in IT, they probably don't realize that if Bill Gates had not done his thing that they'd be in a different job today.
All this from somebody who is also not impressed by some of Bill Gates' legacy. But I still give the guy his due.
Any of us would wish to do half as good as he did for himself and his family.
The rest of the world will not remember Bill Gates as the guy who had a hand in the worlds most insecure os (at some point, the situation has changed a bit), or the guy whose company did some really dirty business deals.
They'll remember the billionaire that gave away a fortune through his foundation to cure all kinds of diseases.
Gates won the PR battle long ago. It's just us IT guys that see the rest of the story, and mostly because they are forced to work with stuff that they would not work with if they had a choice.
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At my work, not a day goes by when someone doesn't curse Bill Gates.
I'm sure Bill Gates really cares. The point I was trying to make, and which seems to be lost on you, is that it is perfectly possible to have people associate you with insecure code or even to outright dislike you and to sleep very well at night and have half the world kow-tow to you. The people at your work are no doubt in IT, they probably don't realize that if Bill Gates had not done his thing that they'd be in a…
It's great that the author found a way to continue working on something he loves but there's a tremendously broad spectrum that 'acquired' could technically fall under - from 'sold one license and got a job' to 'my investors bought another beach house and my grandchildren can afford to be fulltime cocaine addicts'. We don't really know where this particular deal falls.
It falls under his definition, which is good enough a story for me.