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Maybe everyone aside from those at EA are too afraid of Pincus to say anything? If you're in the Valley, you know what I'm talking about.

I think I know how this went down:

Mark Pincus: Hey Mike, since you know we're in our IPO quiet period, can you write a rebuttal to that NYTimes article for me? I'll give you an interview or let you invest in my next deal.

Michael Arrington: Sure thing! You better speak at my next conference!

Mark Pincus: Okay, here are some talking points:

  - Blame everything on EA.
  - I actually think we offer too many perks, point that out
  - I think Roger McNamee is still upset I never let him invest, so he's basically just a sore loser

Michael Arrington: This looks great! It will go well with my other piece defending your terrible labor practices!

Mark Pincus: You're the best.

Yeah, because an anonymous HN commenter knows more about the state of American education than the guy who ran the company that provided American schools with leading-edge technology for the past 3 decades.

... says the guy who created his account an hour ago and has no bio.

What is wrong with this guy. All he can think about is his own rumor mill and credibility. It is pathetic.

Okay, so you kissed up to Color's PR team, got access to the app early, participated in a carefully staged demo, and it seemed cool?

The problem here is that you have no incentive to tell us that Color sucks. Doing so means that you'll never get access to any previews or exclusives from them. Meanwhile, since we're just a bunch of anonymous nobodies, you can bullshit us about how Color's stupid idea about personal video broadcasting is "surreal."

This is the beginning of the end for Android as an open platform. Google will have a financial incentive to release the best phones as Motorola devices. I would not want to be HTC today.

I like how Larry Page talks about IP in the blog post. After all of that talk about how patents were overpriced, Google comes out and spends more money than anyone on acquiring what is basically a terrible handset maker with a large IP portfolio. At the end of the day, Google does what's best for Google.

So it's clear: this post claims that there is a man-in-the-middle attack possible over 4G networks that allows an attacker to own and capture data from an Android device, including texts and calls. If this is true, and if the media gets around to this, enterprise deployments of Android devices are truly screwed.

Have you ever tried to collect a claim against insurance? They will find any loophole possible to avoid a payout. Have fun trying to turn that $50,000 guarantee into something real.

This post is entirely self serving and misses a key point: Why would I want the world's largest advertising company to have access to my healthcare data?!

Mr. Nguyen said the company had taken the criticism to heart and charted a new course. He fired Color’s president, Peter Pham, and its engineers are building a new version of the app to be released later this summer.

I'm guessing Peter and Bill aren't exactly best friends right now.

Strange realization: I am relieved that Microsoft bought this, and not Facebook. Can't remember the last time I was relieved that Microsoft bought a company.

So is the startup in this article Likealittle, CollegeOnly, or something totally new?

Perhaps this has been answered elsewhere and I'm being lazy, but... What's the licensing for Cappuccino and Objective-J? Are people who build on these tools beholden to Motorola?

Edit: I Googled "Objective-J license" to answer my own question -- the answer was LGPL. Awesome!

Isn't Qt covered under GPL? Could someone else run with it for their development platform? Or would there be patent problems etc?