Re:Microsoft acquires Github
by dangerboysteve on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:13AM
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Large Public companies don't change overnight for risk of shareholder revolt. As a Microsoft skeptic, I'll give them the opportunity to change.
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That’s fine, at first blush at least, as long as they stay out of my way.
But their MO is to buy up companies people like or love and run them into the ground, then replace them with a Me Too product that is just enough different that getting out is challenging. To the rest of us that’s indistinguishable from destroying the competition and reducing options.
And here they are buying a company people like, having recently killed off others.
This tiger has the same stripes. When it eats your remaining arm, try to remember people told you so.