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Re:Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines by throwawa998833 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:51PM (#11348939)
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.

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Re:Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines by tapiwa on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:38PM (#11357076)
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.

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