Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

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?).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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