| 1. If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. 2. Success is measured in many ways, and one of those ways is dollars. There are many different ways to get dollars. 3. Failure leads to success. 4. Diaspora got GREAT and HIGHLY SUPPORTIVE press about 2 months ago from Free Software Magazine. 5. Diaspora had substantial cash flow shortly after launching the foundation. In fact they got SO MUCH MONEY that PayPal froze their account, probably because they thought it was fraud (fraud detection is REALLY hard and false positives are cheaper than false negatives...this is IMHO the most likely interpretation). On the contrary, Ilya was in a GREAT position. LOTS of people would have given their left testicle to be him. Now, if he couldn't handle the stress, or he had one too many shots of Vodka, that is tragic, but don't try to bring Diaspora down with him. The facts are not on your side. tl;dr It is WAAAAY too early to be declaring Diaspora a failure. |
This is one of the great overlooked points.