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It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

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[–] hswolf@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge, like the VLC dev

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge

The story is literally about a funding round for Framework. Those investors don't just give away the money. They buy a stake in the company.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

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?