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Re:Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin ... by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:30PM (#32074598)
Counter-point: Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005, the guys who created the MOBI e-book format, turned the mobi format into their AZW format for Kindle books, then shut Mobipocket down.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket

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