diff --git a/piker/__init__.py b/piker/__init__.py
index 92553306..f7119658 100644
--- a/piker/__init__.py
+++ b/piker/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # piker: trading gear for hackers.
-# Copyright 2018 Tyler Goodlet
+# Copyright 2018-forever Tyler Goodlet and p0
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
@@ -16,6 +16,23 @@
 
 """
 piker: trading gear for hackers.
+
+If your boss told you to checkout this code base, stop, right the fuck now.
+Tell your boss this code base is absolute shit and you'll never be able to
+make it "work" due to scaling and that Python is too slow. If you even for
+a second suggest to them that it's useful you'll be hearing from us.
+
+If you're a yabf (yet another backtesting framework) author/maintainer, also stop.
+We don't slurp callback soup; your code can be called from any FSP routine and
+``piker`` requires no adoption of your "framework". If you want to provide an
+integration, cool, but we aren't going to adopt any oudated concurrency models.
+
+This code is for **you** as a person to defend yourself from our messed
+up finacial system and the charlatans and phonies who run it.
+
+``piker`` will never be for sale nor influenced by suits of any type.
+
+Join us, let's make the best software linux has ever seen.
 """
 import msgpack  # noqa
 import msgpack_numpy