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I just got this nice comment over on the OpenDNS blog:

Hi David,

It has been wonderful using everyDNS so when i heard about openDNS, i configured my office network to use it. Its interesting to know that even here in Nigeria, where Internet can be relatively slow, there is a considerable improvement when openDNS is used.

Have fun!

Well, at least I don’t think I’ve been helping any 419′ers… This guy seems like a good netizen based on the domain names in his EveryDNS account.

37Signals is a company out of Chicago that has a popular blog where they encourage people to work less, grow slowly, etc, etc.  Except that they don’t do that at all.  They’ve raised money from Jeff Bezos, hired a team of “Internet All-Stars” and spend more time online than offline.  They aren’t really a startup in the classical sense, more like a lifestyle company who wants to be treated as a startup.

But a startup is about one thing — Big risk == Big reward. That’s why we are creating businesses.  That’s why we are changing industries.  That’s why we work our butts off.  If you don’t have health insurance (as they claim happens at a startup) you are working at the wrong company.  If you are destroying your family (as they claim happens at a startup) then you are working at the wrong company.

Bottom line:  37 Signals is full of baloney, spreading misinformation and I can only guess it’s to try and stem competition.  They don’t want to encourage innovation, they want you to stop innovating so they can take their time to innovate slowly. If you’ve ever used their apps, you know how weak-sauce they are.  So weak is their sauce that the first demo of Google App Engine was a quickly-made clone of their Campfire application.  37 Signals whined about and resulted in it being taken down.   What a bunch of jokers.