A discussion about the breaking of the Internet

Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by inerte on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:35PM (#11347528)

Not sure why kik thought this post would make them look better. While "Bob's" choice of words is soft and creepy-friendly, his request wasn't. The npm escalation after Azer gave what they wanted, a price for "the hassle" of changing the project name, really shows what they really wanted is the name for cheap. They might say "unreasonable", but it really means "unreasonable to us".

It also shows they don't know how to negotiate at all, but that's tangential. You don't escalate to threat and then let the other side anchor the price.

And while if I was Azer I would have renamed the project (because someone else has a trademark on it), if I was kik I wouldn't pretend that bringing lawyers and being unable to negotiate is "a polite request", because imaginarily "I don't mean to be a dick"

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by kazinator on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#11347565)

If you don't want to be a dick, don't break into e-mail conversations with strangers, where you kik things off by invoking the vernacular names of genitalia.

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by mylons on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:38PM (#11348013)

and then post the email chain thinking it clears them of any wrong doing. keep on being a dick

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by vlribeiro on Thursday March 24, 2016 @10:05AM (#11352839)

> It also shows they don't know how to negotiate at all, but that's tangential.

They tried to. But how do you negotiate with a guy that doesn't want to negotiate and calls you a dick?

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by flowersjeff on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:24PM (#11378287)

Don't know where you see that fantasy? In the chain that kik published (probably the one that they thought made them look the best - mind you), I saw a load of passive aggressive/weasel words. Where's the offer?

If I call you up and bug you to do something for me (a stranger mind you); then it is up to me to come right out and explain the value proposition. Not hem and haw, dancing here and there - hoping that you will just drop to your knees, just because. And then when you don't - I can then get mad and threaten you? What world do you want to live in? That one sounds insane to me.

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Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet by jhall1468 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:55PM (#11354395)

He called them a dick after they ended any possibility of negotiation with legal threats. They started it by seemingly making a request, he declined (curtly but not rudely) and they threatened legal action.

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