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Re:Unity is cancelling the runtime fee by crunkykd on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:45PM (#41522807)
IronSource & WETA acquisitions may have been expensive mistakes
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Re:Unity is cancelling the runtime fee by 0cf8612b2e1e on Thursday September 12, 2024 @12:57PM (#41522954)
After blowing $1.6B on WETA, Unity almost immediately pivoted and shutdown the company.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/unity-lays-off-hundre...

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Re:Unity is cancelling the runtime fee by FractalHQ on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:07PM (#41523053)
That is a tragedy. The amount of talent and brilliance robbed from the world…

I still don’t understand why companies buying other companies should be a thing at all. Anti-trust solved, competition restored.

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Re:Unity is cancelling the runtime fee by WillPostForFood on Thursday September 12, 2024 @01:52PM (#41523568)
>That is a tragedy. The amount of talent and brilliance robbed from the world…

That talent is all still alive, and will do brilliant things in the future. Probably moreso than if they were stuck working for Unity.

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Re:Unity is cancelling the runtime fee by solardev on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:20PM (#41525081)
Execs fail, workers pay the price...
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