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Comment by twblalock | Hacker News Reader

As far as I can tell, both the CEO and the developer have behaved very unprofessionally during this whole affair, airing their grievances and their dirty laundry on public forums. I don’t think I would trust either of them to run a company or maintain a trustworthy codebase. They should consider the damage they are doing to their reputations and start acting like adults.

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I'm not sure what you expect from the developer, to just take it? He doesn't have power in the company because even though he's a 50% shareholder, he's not on the board of directors.

I mean, personally, I hold them both to the same standard of professionalism, as they were both "c-levels" within their company. He's more than a developer, at that point, so airing of dirty laundry comes off as kind of a petty attempt at "bringing the other guy down with me". Especially the times where he was posting direct snippets from their private emails, then a sinister sounding summary of the rest (but not the actual content of the rest, meaning he's probably twisting some words).

I think both sides are acting really shitty here, I wouldn't want to partner with either of them in any future endeavor.

I have not yet read the post, but this trend of striking people off for their mistakes gets on my nerves. The morning I was reading an article on NYT comparing Einstein's remarks from his visits to Asian countries, which are rather racist, and his standing with the black in the American racial conflict. Tge possibility that he discovered the falsehood of his previous thoughts, if we take them as racist ones, and changed his ideas and stance is completely ignored. We make mistakes, sometimes we learn better.

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