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Re:Ask HN: How would you approach a disruptive new technology? by Mz on Sunday September 12, 2010 @08:17AM (#1683523)
If it really makes a wide range of other things obsolete, shopping it around may be a very bad idea. Are these folks (google, microsoft, etc) the ones who will likely be obsolete almost overnight? If so, shopping it around may not get you any buyers and, instead, may make you a target of attempts to stop you by some means or other. (As I understand it, Microsoft has a long history of buying up new stuff that seems interesting and then never launching a product. They also supposedly set their sights on destroying Netscape when they wouldn't sell. Netscape did, in fact, go out of business.)

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