"In 1998 Ericsson decided to ban all use of Erlang. The people responsible for developing it argued that if they were going to ban it, then they might as well o

"In 1998 Ericsson decided to ban all use of Erlang. The people responsible for developing it argued that if they were going to ban it, then they might as well open source it. Which Ericsson did and shortly after most of the team that created Erlang quit and started their own company." Bwahahaha. Reminds me of the JRuby team, who left Sun as a single unit and resumed work as a team at another company (I can't remember where) when Oracle acquired Sun.