Baldur BjarnasonOne of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
Aaron Bieber (no relation)@baldur As I am always reminding people, a person can have compassion and loyalty, but a company cannot. Companies are amoral sociopaths.
Publicly traded companies even more so.