This is modus operandi for many acquisitions in the field of proprietary software.
If you have been in the business for a decade or two, you’ve seen this play more than a few times. It’s legal, it’s profitable, so it keeps happening. Even when it destroys valuable products in the end.
Open source software with permissive licensing is the only true guarantee of not getting squeezed.
But you can’t always find suitable FOSS etc. so here we are. It’s a sad situation IMO
If you have been in the business for a decade or two, you’ve seen this play more than a few times. It’s legal, it’s profitable, so it keeps happening. Even when it destroys valuable products in the end.
Open source software with permissive licensing is the only true guarantee of not getting squeezed.
But you can’t always find suitable FOSS etc. so here we are. It’s a sad situation IMO