Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B

Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by nikanj on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:40PM (#21708007)

I would pay _more_ for many products, if they offered this option.

I don't want whatever dark patterns and bonus features ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=29... ) marketing came up with this year. I want the basic functionality you had at 1.0, with all the bugfixes since.

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by rurp on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:11PM (#21708598)

Exactly my thoughts as well! The average update to a product I use regularly is strongly negative. If I'm already using it that means that it mostly does what I need it to. Constant updates are far more likely to change or degrade existing functionality and/or add bloat that slows performance or clutters the UI, than they are to improve something that already works.

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by nathan_f77 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:55AM (#21710664)

I strongly agree! I really like the idea of a "finished" product that doesn't keep adding new features and growing the team just because they took too much funding and need to find more ways to grow. This is kind of product I'm trying to build with my startup [1]. (I did take some funding from Earnest Capital, but this was just to help with my personal living expenses and pay for a few larger projects.)

[1] https://docspring.com

[2] https://earnestcapital.com

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by dplgk on Sunday December 08, 2019 @04:34PM (#21738497)

Reminds me of how this has not worked - for Mint.com. It was cool when it first came out, got acquired by intuit and now is an old, kinda useless app that was never updated.

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