[draw_down]

What is it about these posts that bring out the HN contingent who think themselves firebrand skeptics? This is basically a marketing piece, what good is fact-checking it

[mbesto]

I've done a fair bit of PR writing myself so I'm happy to be skeptical and understand the line between marketing speak and reality.

The problem here is the audience is clearly the developer community (which I'm also a part of). Developer communities have a right be skeptical about key acquisitions of their open source dependancies. It can have massive commercial implications on software design decisions, etc.

Open source is built on trust. Dubious communication does nothing but erode that trust.

[vog]

> This is basically a marketing piece, what good is fact-checking it

Not sure about the US laws, but here in Germany, all marketing claims must stay to the facts, or the company can be sued.

(Which is why most marketing speak uses fuzzy terms that sound nice but don't convey any information. But that's a general trend anyway.)

[xacaxulu]

Yeah but we have 'freedom' here in the US </sarcasm>. I love French restrictions on adverts for medications as well, they're very stringent. As a dual US/EU citizen, I never run out of interesting divergences like the one you've pointed out.

[meatysnapper]

Es musst die Wahrheit sein!!!

[pluma]

Ah, Hollywood German. How lovely.

[robertfw]

A little more honest marketing would do the world some good. I'm all for having someone check and call out bs where it is found.