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Sure was better than ExpertsExchange, though :)

True enough. I guess it's probably not beyond saving, either. It does have a pretty good core idea.

Oh, it wasn't ExpertSexChange?

Making Stackoverflow the Wikipedia of QnA was a missed opportunity in hindsight.

This uber-cynical and uncharitable smearing of the story is unhelpful at best.

May I never be subject to this sort of misreading, and I hope you never are either.

meh. you're probably right. I edited and distilled it down to the main point. I just wish it were a nonprofit at the end of the day, I guess. It would've been the right thing to do. That he chose not to makes me sad. That he was rewarded richly for it, sadder.

> That he chose not to makes me sad

I'm not sure if it was really up to him; I doubt he owned a majority of the company?