| ▲ | BoredPositron 5 days ago |
| It's PR. First the petition and now this fundraiser. Sorry but it feels more like a stunt than anything sincere otherwise they would front the money. They certainly have the funds for it. |
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| ▲ | xmcp123 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Getting into a legal battle with oracle would be an incredibly expensive PR effort, especially as they filed and started the process without donations. $200k is absolutely not going to come close to covering their legal fees possibly in any scenario but definitely if Oracle tries to drag out the process. |
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| ▲ | knotbin 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes. Ryan Dahl has openly said this. It isn't a "gotcha" nor is it something they're hiding.
Tweet from Ryan Dahl: > I can justify spending money on it because it does get Deno's name out there - blog posts posted to http://deno.com, etc - but without support it's pretty likely our legal bills will dwarf whatever that marketing is worth |
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| ▲ | BoredPositron 5 days ago | parent [-] | | The gotcha is them forcing the communities hand here without working with said community. It's despicable business practice and them admitting that it's mainly for show is even worse. |
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| ▲ | glenstein 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. You can be in favor insofar as it's a public service and otherwise disregard. |
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| ▲ | BoredPositron 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Everyone in here jumping to the conclusion that if you say something against the PR shit deno has done. To instantly sucking off Oracle and burning JavaScript flags in the garden. They literally brought it on to themselves and now they want you to pay for it. It's "the last chance" because they made it the last chance. That should be thing discussed in here. A company abusing their reach (60k for the petition) pretending to be guarding the community (millions) while forcing it's hand and also extorting it for money. | | |
| ▲ | azemetre 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, it's hard for this to feel like a community endeavor when it's a single company deciding to act on behalf of the community while never taking input or building a consensus around the issue with said community. Hard to not be cynical about the whole thing, especially when it's a private VC backed company doing this and not say the OpenJS Foundation. | | | |
| ▲ | DonHopkins 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | >To instantly sucking off Oracle Do not anthropenisize Larry Ellison. |
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