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Dotcom was not able to hire quality programmers because few (if any) would work for an illegal enterprise.
by MTWomg 14y ago
Dotcom was not able to hire quality programmers because few (if any) would work for an illegal enterprise.
- rangibaby 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517
- illuminate 14y agoI find this doubtful. At worst, you can find persons to "consult" to do the job properly, and they can move on to other projects post-launch. Perhaps his negative reputation preceded him, but that was earned long before the US government's involvement with Megaupload. Heck, I hadn't seen anyone express sympathy for his operations ~until~ the US crackdown.