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Might I ask what's stopping you from launching a competing product? If the product was good in the first place, had enough traction to get noticed by Gootwitbo
by donw 15y ago
Might I ask what's stopping you from launching a competing product?
If the product was good in the first place, had enough traction to get noticed by Gootwitbook, and was something you really wanted, why not build it up yourself?
- bugsy 15y agoI have never had or heard of a contract situation where I could go off and build a competing product after being acquired by a competitor. Stuff gets locked up. This practice is one of the reasons behind some open source movements - the protection of inventions from getting annihilated in the event of takeover. These articles do not include the detail that Facebook (or whoever) released the source code of the acquired product into the public domain. They include the detail that the products were killed.