Re:Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines
by civilian on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:01PM
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That's a really good follow up article, thanks for posting it.
Re:Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines
by throwawa998833 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:51PM
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Reading the article it seems like the Kik emails were a little poorly worded, but not extremely so.
However, Azer's response is completely over the top. Clearly he has a take no prisoners attitude and scorched earth approach to things. Given that open source is also about collaboration, this response is kinda lame.
Re:Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines
by tapiwa on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:38PM
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But Azer was right on the money.
A request, by definition requires a binary response.
A polite request, by definition, means that you can live (however badly) with either a Yay, or a nay.
Kik's attitude (whilst claiming to be polite), was that anything other than a "Yay", would be met with lawyers.
On this one, #IStandWithAzer.
Humorously, this did happen. From the medium post by kik[0]:
I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on [email protected], which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well.
[0]: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...