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by gamblor956 4858 days ago
Heroku is owned by SalesForce, a publicly-traded multi-billion dollar company. It has annual revenues in the hundreds of billions.

They have the resources to handle the suit and fix the "damn problems" at the same time.

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Salesforce does $3-4b in annual revenue.
So the size of their purse determines their legal liability? What difference does it make if it is a big multi-billion dollar company that does a few billion in revenue or a startup? If this were Dropbox, would people want to see a clas s action lawsuit too? Doubt it.

Regardless, the point has been made. They need to compensate those customers - but this lawsuit is frivolous, opportunistic and going too far.