> In the land of computers being acquired tends to mean the acquired co. shutters their business Not really, e.g. Oracle acquiring Sun or Vmware acquiring Nici

> In the land of computers being acquired tends to mean the acquired co. shutters their business Not really, e.g. Oracle acquiring Sun or Vmware acquiring Nicira, not to mention all the $100M+ but "unfashionable" acquires that don't even get airtime on HN. Anyway, I don't get this sort of complaint. If you really think the service had potential to be profitable, why not go ahead and clone it?