I don’t fully understand the business of Cloudant to be honest...
Why would anyone read past this point? Why is this on hacker news? The reaction to Cloudant's post is shocking.
Cloudant deals in hosting lots of data. They just got a client that trusts them with huge amounts of data. That is why the press release and story are reasonable. Everything else is knee-jerk politics.
When the point is that we're not having a meaningful conversation, it's not a big loss. It's actually the first responsibility of the original article to be competent, but I digress because yes I did read the post.
It proved idiotic. To talk about Y Combinator as the old guard betrays such a deep lack of understanding about the way startups impact society that the entire point (99% should boycott or something) is meaningless. Also, this post is by someone who built a business talking about Facebook, essentially uncritically, making it in a unique position of deeply incorrect and also hypocritical.
Cloudant deals in hosting lots of data. They just got a client that trusts them with huge amounts of data. That is why the press release and story are reasonable. Everything else is knee-jerk politics.