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>>waxpan+(OP)
> I felt sad for the guy. It’s awful going through life never believing in anything.

Being an idealist is fine, but being a dick is not. This article took on some personal schadenfreude after I read this line.

>>Andrex+lZ
There was definitely a certain amount of "I told you so" vibes, but I don't blame the author. It appears that he was attacked by a lot of Ello founders and fans for raising some cautionary notes. And as it turns out, he was right and they were wrong.

We would all like to have a model where users don't get charged money, and yet are not the product. But I haven't seen a model that works to date. In some cases, I don't mind my personal date getting sold; in other cases I pay money because the service is valuable. But I certainly make backups since I don't assume that even when I pay $$$, that the company might not go poof in the night....

>>tytso+p31
I believe GP was referring to the Ello founder Budnitz, who said that line, as the "dick."

I agree. He was responding to perfectly justified -- and accurate -- criticism by saying how sad it is to be a person with such views of the world.