It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
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Money talks.
When the owners of a private company are offered millions more than they’ll likely make over the nest ten years, the odds of selling are very high.
Look at all the software devs that gets bought.
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There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge, like the VLC dev
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Yes, the exception. That simply supports my argument.
And we’re talking about stuff we see. Again, I bet you’d never heard of FolderShare or UbiBoot before I mentioned them here, and those are just 2 tools of many that I’ve lost to acquisitions over the years.
How many other tools/products have companies quietly acquired and killed that we don’t know about?
