hey guys,

i had spoken with anoop early on (i started graffitigeo.com with a few of my college friends). i'll do a detailed response shortly, but anoop and i spoke on the phone today and we've both agreed that there were no ill intentions. what i had meant was that Graffitio as a product would be "stomped out" by other competitive applications who would focus on this space fulltime, as anoop was taking a job in new york full time. i was mostly interested in taking graffitio and improving upon it. at either rate, both anoop and i don't hold any hard feelings against each other and understand that this space is pretty competitive. the idea of "graffiti" and "walls" isn't entirely unique either, as i know of other companies exploring the space.

Agreed. Indeed the response of fine, you want to compete? let me go open up my IDE and we'll begin is definitely the mark of a real hacker.

aranganath strikes me as a reasonable and mature person. But none of the parties involved owe you or HN anything. The issue is between them. If they choose to air their dirty laundry, so be it. But it's not an obligation.