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I'm not sure why i would use this over the already-existing phantomjs command line API (http://phantomjs.org/api/command-line.html), especially as it adds Ruby to the mix...also quite suspicious of the seemingly-unrelated plug for a company in the repo readme.

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Lay off the accusations. 1. I'm a founder of that company and this is apart of a much larger project i'm releasing in a few months. 2. That command line does not act like a normal unix tool and will make your life a living hell because QT has some horrid misunderstanding of what constitutes a newline, outputting format characters, and incorrect streams (stdout is used for errors).

P.S. I do kernel development on FreeBSD in my spare time. I know a little bit about unix, ya know?

Congratulations on your journey with the company thus far. I simply don't understand why a randomly-dropped plug for said company is at all cogent in the documentation for a library that is released under what seems to be your personal github and has no other visible attachment to said company. But I'm not accusing you of anything - I mentioned it because it struck me as out-of-place and potentially PR-opportunistic, if that's not the case I apologize. From one founder to another: perhaps next time consider taking the less-abrasive approach to defending your product to avoid alienating your (potential) user base? Your hostility ends up doing the opposite of assuaging my concerns. Good luck.

Edited due to parent edit: I'm...happy for you that you develop on the FreeBSD kernel? I'm also not sure how that is relevant to the discussion of why this tool should be used over any other of the dozens of headless toolkits and wrappers out there - and your readme certainly doesn't do any work to convince me to care about your implementation over any existing solution. You're surprisingly defensive for someone claiming to be confident in their development skills, I'm not your enemy here - I was, until this exchange, a potential user (and may yet be, I'm not one to pass over a good tool simply for personal reasons).

was wondering, is this kernel dev on a private fork? i couldn't find a public fork on your gh and didn't see you listed as a contributor (https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/graphs/contributors) - was curious to see the improvements you were introducing

You know FreeBSD is not developed on github, or in git (yeah, there is a very new bridge). Its in subversion.

@rem0x4 Ignore the haters.

1. Take open source library built on a fake browser

2. Write a wrapper around it claim its good as a real browser.

3. Plug company name

4. Profit ??

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