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It can, I think. The EEE concept is useful enough to go slightly outside its original intended use.
by jrm4 4y ago
It can, I think. The EEE concept is useful enough to go slightly outside its original intended use.
- fluoridation 4y agoSo the idea here is 1. Acquire company for tens of billions. 2. Intentionally ruin own investment. 3. ??? 4. PROFIT! ?
- jrm4 4y agoThere are a lot of less-than-optimal possible outcomes between "create the best possible free open source library" and "utterly ruin."
- robertlagrant 4y agoWell. 1. Acquire company for $7.5bn in stock, so fortunes are joined rather than cash paid 2. Still charge money for it 3. Create an AI product out of the open source bit of it, justifying the price tag, as well as build links to Microsoft dev tools to entice OSS back into the Microsoft ecosystem 4. Maybe profit, but almost certainly not loss