That's the MO for all these big players. They don't shell out merely for the marketplace advantage, there's always some meta (no pun intended) Gordon Gecko cor

That's the MO for all these big players. They don't shell out merely for the marketplace advantage, there's always some meta (no pun intended) Gordon Gecko corpo warfare schtick going on in the background. To quote Peter Thiel, "competition is for losers".