Then its likely that your project either doesn't have nearly enough exposure, or this feedback is largely legitimate and you should figure out what is fundamentally offensive about your software to these people. It could benefit your skill and perspective significantly, down the road, even if you never actually come to agree with the detractors completely.

+1 Underrated.

Yes, that's your first clue that schadenfreude is involved here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Yes, you're right and maybe this is the part I am having trouble coming to grips with. He seems like the last guy who should be spouting this line of rubbish. I feel like I'm in a bad B-rate horror movie and the body snatchers just got to the President...

+1 Underrated.

Yes, you're right I have this ASCII text file created in 1997 and I can't find anything to read it...

OH WAIT ACTUALLY FUCKING *EVERYTHING* STILL READS IT.

Stop gargling Microsoft's balls so much and wipe off your chin. Proprietary data formats are THE PROBLEM. Stop trying to redirect public discourse with this thinly veiled bullshit.

This is inaccurate. Red Bull Flugtag generates a huge amount of publicity for Red Bull. Agile makes everyone who touches it quickly fade into obscurity.

Good catch. But couldn't the same business formula work, in theory, for causes if a similar organization (but with different terms of service than Kickstarter) were to be created?

(The money got spent on War, mostly.)

I think we're talking about America here.

I simply meant that its obsolete for non-profits. Obviously, you're right its still working great for the lobbiests and lobbiers themselves.

Lobbying is obsolete.

So, basically they killed off all the ones that like sugar enough to die for it and they're calling it evolution?

You will get sued for that crap here.

Yea, he might be more paranoid for no reason, but I think we can all agree that whether that is the case or not, paranoid people are WAY more fun to fuck with.