<story><title>Just doesn’t feel good</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>Lots of people here trying to infer motives. Why not just believe what he says? He&amp;#x27;s a guy who has enough money, wants to do what he loves, and doesn&amp;#x27;t enjoy controversy. He&amp;#x27;s hacker enough to want to muck about with how to make a blocker, but it&amp;#x27;s not his joy.&lt;p&gt;Basically, he&amp;#x27;s what many of us aspire to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrescimanno</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t want to infer motives because I don&amp;#x27;t know. I will say that I am among those who doesn&amp;#x27;t really believe this is simply a morality tale. There are several folks here, like yourself, who are basically saying, &amp;quot;yeah, I can understand the mentality of not wanting to do and ad-blocker because of the moral grey area&amp;quot; I can understand that as well.&lt;p&gt;What I &lt;i&gt;can&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; understand is the quite sudden change of heart 2 days after launching the product. I don&amp;#x27;t think people here are questioning whether developers are willing to forego their own financial gain for their moral ease (the very existence of the FSF makes it clear that there is a willingness). It&amp;#x27;s simply a very sudden turn for someone who previously demonstrated no such compunction.</text></comment>
<story><title>Just doesn’t feel good</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjensen</author><text>Lots of people here trying to infer motives. Why not just believe what he says? He&amp;#x27;s a guy who has enough money, wants to do what he loves, and doesn&amp;#x27;t enjoy controversy. He&amp;#x27;s hacker enough to want to muck about with how to make a blocker, but it&amp;#x27;s not his joy.&lt;p&gt;Basically, he&amp;#x27;s what many of us aspire to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chucknelson</author><text>Agreed - I think the key point is where he says he&amp;#x27;s fortunate enough to be able to do this (sacrifice the possible income of this app).&lt;p&gt;Why bother with all of the political mess (much of it from &amp;quot;the internet&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m sure) when you could just apply your effort elsewhere and avoid a ton of physical and emotional stress? Focusing on Overcast sounds just fine.</text></comment>