Fine, ask lsc. I have tremendous respect for Luke given that he had, thanklessly and for years, tried to compete in this exact market singlehandedly. Even competing against him at Linode, that was remarkable to me.
I have receipts for my Linode employment and I am unconcerned about the veracity of my analysis (I’m actually paid for said analysis IRL). Think about that bar you’ve set for a minute: “this person doesn’t actively court a reputation on Hacker News, therefore the information is suspect.” If that sounds good to you, we are unlikely to agree on anything, and I’ve little interest in defending my methods to someone who values speaker over spoken.
I have other gripes with Linode, but it’s not exactly par for a ‘disgruntled’ former to speak positively about a business, no?
