Sorry, but I have to disagree. The sentence only has no information in it I'd you choose to blindly look at the words in a vacuum. But if you think about what he said, what he meant, the tone has a ton of information, the most obvious is a drop frustration of the empty promises and frequent shut downs that is all too common in recent startups.
I think the comment created worthwhile conversation. And I'm not sure it would be better off without it. Obviously you can disagree, and given your position perhaps my opinion doesn't really matter, but to say it has no information is just being dishonest, and I say that in the nicest way possible.
> I think the comment created worthwhile conversation.
I see two conversations here. One is about users feeling betrayed by acquisitions and whether that could be mitigated contractually. That conversation didn't require abusiveness to be created. The other conversation is about who is being a fuckwad, and hardly counts as "worthwhile". Unfortunately, it is what such rudeness leads to, and it only gets worse.
Keep in mind that we're not talking about rudeness in general. We're talking about its effect on the already precarious balance of a particular optionally-anonymous internet forum. The argument here isn't ethical so much as empirical.
I think the comment created worthwhile conversation. And I'm not sure it would be better off without it. Obviously you can disagree, and given your position perhaps my opinion doesn't really matter, but to say it has no information is just being dishonest, and I say that in the nicest way possible.