I think you are missing the point here. It is stupid to blame Tumblr for all the other big scary companies. They made a mistake. They apologized and fixed the problem, and according to the apology they found a bug in their process and fixed it.
Instead of bashing Tumblr for apologizing, we should be happy they retracted. If HN was the reason why they retracted, then great. But let's stop looking down on Tumblr purring ourselves at the top.
We are all at the same boat and same level. We are all trying to make our companies work.
He is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's. He's appeared to do since he considers the apology 'genuine'.
The thing to note in all this is:
"Our legal department very recently started using a third party vendor to assist us in pursuing trademark infringers and, due to an error in our new process, your domain was mistakenly caught in the cross-fire."
If tumblr has switched to yahoo! legal, that is not a nice side effect of the acquisition.
> He is missing the point, it's not even his apology to accept, it's Zach's.
Of course it's not for me to accept or not accept that apology and no one should care about my opinion on the matter. But I think not appreciating the apology is a defensible position to take and I'm trying to articulate why I feel so. Feel free to dismiss me. :)
The apology fits the patterns of those big scary companies. It's better than not giving an apology, sure, but in just my personal, humble opinion it does not exonerate them.
Instead of bashing Tumblr for apologizing, we should be happy they retracted. If HN was the reason why they retracted, then great. But let's stop looking down on Tumblr purring ourselves at the top.
We are all at the same boat and same level. We are all trying to make our companies work.