I'm not affiliated with Docker in any way and I'm just speaking from my experience. My only connection to Steve Singh is just that my company still partners with Concur.

Concur became a behemoth in corporate travel, and companies that competed against them or didn't want to work with them eventually had to.[1]

It sounds like you don't know a lot about the corporate travel industry which is fine. I'm sure a lot of people would love to get "conquered" for $8B some day.

[1] http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Business-Travel-Agencies/I...

Please don't post like this to HN. It's a breach of the civility rule to accuse a fellow user of "standard PR stuff" and insinuate astroturfing or other bad-faith behavior without evidence. The overwhelming majority of the time, you're simply talking to someone with a different point of view than yours, and that's the foundation of civil discourse.

I disagree with the moderator's response. The whole reply was fine, and "easily the most respected leader in the travel industry" is indeed unintelligent, gushing drivel that sounds like PR copy; it's this sort of thing that we don't want on HN.

Note: Docker is a YC company (S10).

Note 2: This kind of comment from a moderator feels a bit out of place, given this. At least without a disclaimer explaining the relationship between the topic and the moderator's employer.

Three thoughts. First, the overwhelming majority of users who we stick up for with comments like this (including the GP) aren't affiliated with YC in any way, so I don't see what problem that would solve.

It would insult readers' knowledge and intelligence to put nitpicky disclaimers on everything, especially when the affiliations are all public. Presumably you knew these things without special access; why assume less of others?

HN is a spirit-of-the-law, not letter-of-the-law place. The principle at issue is that fellow users deserve to be read charitably. I don't see how that needs any disclaiming.

They were conquered in the same way that Pixar was conquered by Disney.