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I don't understand this argument at all. None of it. It's odd and quite frankly silly. It doesn't matter if the app was $10. Enterprise software companies, that
by jusben1369 14y ago
I don't understand this argument at all. None of it. It's odd and quite frankly silly. It doesn't matter if the app was $10. Enterprise software companies, that sell for 5, 6 and 7 figures get acquired all the time. Their offerings then get EOL'ed many times. Free doesn't help you. $30 doesn't help you. $1 million doesn't help you. If a larger company believes that acquiring smaller company is attractive and writes a big check then that's what happens. The only determinant I can see is if you want a lifestyle business where you're always the master of your own domain. That seems to be the only reasons folks won't sell (Marco won't move a family to the Valley - at least not unless he gets a LOT of money)
When did we all start pining for everything to be the same forever?
- DLWormwood 14y ago> When did we all start pining for everything to be the same forever? Since time immemorial... it’s one of the few constants of human nature that does stay the same.
- ZoFreX 14y agoIf anyone is truly pining for everything to be the same forever then they're in luck, because Sparrow won't be changing anymore...
- joe_the_user 14y agoOpen source helps if your app has a functioning eco-system. Oracle couldn't kill Open Office for example.
- briandear 14y agoOpen Office killed Open Office.
- lmm 14y agoOpenoffice was dead to begin with; it never had a dev ecosystem outside of the people sun paid. All it did was kill more promising linux office projects (koffice, the gnome efforts).
- Create 14y agohttps://www.libreoffice.org/ https://www.libreoffice.org/ is what it became, aside the ORA-IBM Apache project. LO is actively developed and supported by both local and really Small ME-s, and the https://www.documentfoundation.org/ https://www.documentfoundation.org/