alt Hacker NewsLimited preview for researchers, who will be hand picked to write positive reviews.
Enough of this frontier grifting. Make it testable for open source developers at no cost and without login or get lost. You won't of course, because you'd get an unfiltered evaluation instead of guerilla marketing via blog posts, secrecy, and name-dropping researchers that cannot be disclosed.
It’s a free market. The cream will rise to the top eventually regardless of astroturfing or not. And it will be replicated in FOSS too, so no need to be angry.