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Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by metadat on Sunday July 03, 2022 @02:18AM (#31965538)
IIRC, Apple and Google (Steve Jobs and whoever from Google, Larry Paige probably) did it circa 2008. Douchebaggerymaximus.
Re:Watching an acquirer ruin your company by numpad0 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @02:37AM (#31965609)
Yeah, the ad-run Internet allowed ideas to be capitalized easier, and it also made memetic - not even novelty - value dominate over everything. That resulted in manager-sales role capture entirety of credits. That had been great for some temporarily embarrassed millionaires, I guess, but it sucks for the rest.