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Re:Substrate Is a $1B Fraud by Arainach on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:57PM (#45783774)
James Proud:

* Promised an alarm clock that would do a bunch of things

* Took $2.5M in funding from Kickstarter

* Took another $50M in funding from elsewhere

* Delivered a piece of hardware that did essentially none of what was promised.

It's all detailed in OP and the linked Verge article. That's a scam and I'm not interested in your legalese arguing whether they can be sued or not.

Re:Substrate Is a $1B Fraud by embedding-shape on Saturday November 01, 2025 @02:12PM (#45783897)
> I'm not interested in your legalese arguing whether they can be sued or not

What... You know, it doesn't matter. Thanks for the summary anyways!

Re:Substrate Is a $1B Fraud by Arainach on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:31PM (#45785064)
Ethics and legality are independent concepts. A scam is an ethical construct.