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Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by odyslam on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:27PM (#27426194)
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by fastball on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:22PM (#27427134)
Given that his name isn't even Conan, everyone should probably treat this as the baseless hearsay that it seems to be.
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by fossuser on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:55PM (#27425756)
I don't know the truth around that either way, but I think Roam is based in Utah at some ranch (even if they're funded by a16z). I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.

I think his brother was also the QAnon shaman horn guy (at least he said as much on Twitter - maybe it was a joke?).

Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by mitko on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:26PM (#27426729)
I don't think this was his brother - I think it was a joke (imo bad taste at the time). I did some research around it and it seemed that his brother does look alike but that other person had a different legal name.
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by bb88 on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:08PM (#27425928)
> I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.

I get what you're saying here, but they made an entire TV series lampooning silicon valley culture.

Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by fossuser on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:45PM (#27426423)
Yeah and I liked it - good tongue-in-cheek satire that exaggerated a lot of things that have some basis in truth. It was ultimately a fictional show though and life in silicon valley is a lot more boring than that the vast majority of the time.

Even in that show nobody was on meth iirc.

Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by lupire on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:36PM (#27427336)
They did an amphetamine dependency and an opium dependency.
Re:Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project by caslon on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:00PM (#27425819)
Isn't equating "victim of drug addiction" and "harms women" out of line? One is something that isn't really his fault and isn't because of his moral failings, and the other is dehumanizing nearly half of the population.