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

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[–] MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 7 months ago (15 children)

cool - but if their product lines are modular and they try to break out of their niche market. whats to stop someone with a lot more capital from snapping them up (Dell, Lenovo, etc)?

[–] brenticus@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Framework is a private company so they need to agree to be bought. I don't know enough about the leadership to be able to say the likelihood of accepting an offer, but it's not just a thing that automatically happens because Dell has a lot of money.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

VLC

Exceptions are possible. Money isn't everything for everyone.

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

Exceptions are possible.

And being exceptions proves the norm.

I've seriously lost countless tools because MS acquired them and shut them down. Thousands of dollars gone.

I'm not holding my breath.

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