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Re:App.net is shutting down by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:59PM (#13387842)
Also it's pretty awesome to see a shutdown accompanied with an open sourcing. If every startup did this, we'd have a ton more open source code out there to play with.
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Re:App.net is shutting down by Stratoscope on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:42PM (#13388010)
> If every startup did this...

But then every startup would have to shut down!

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Re:App.net is shutting down by wattt on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:53PM (#13388292)
So... Every startup? Except the big companies!
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Re:App.net is shutting down by ocdtrekkie on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:18AM (#13389263)
Isn't the failure rate of startups like 99% already?
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