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It's more complicated than that. Sometimes after 15 years, the founders want to move on and do something else. Or they want to build a dream house. Or their cof
by turnsout 1y ago
It's more complicated than that. Sometimes after 15 years, the founders want to move on and do something else. Or they want to build a dream house. Or their cofounder wants to get out. Or they hear the long-term vision of the acquiring company, and want to be a part of it.
Although it's an uphill battle, not every acquisition ends with the product being destroyed. Just look at what Apple did with NeXT and PA Semi…
- dangus 1y agoYou can have controlling stake in a company without working there day to day. Apple literally destroyed those companies. After Apple acquired NeXT there was one less operating system on the market. PA Semi now doesn’t have a product that is sold to the open market.
- ascorbic 1y agoApple bought NeXT and made it one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.
- dangus 1y agoBut if Apple didn’t buy them, Apple would have made their own operating system and NeXT might still be here today with their own operating system. Like I said, a competitor was removed from the market.
- ascorbic 1y agoThe only operating system that was killed was Mac OS 9, while NeXTSTEP lives on in billions of devices today
- tracker1 1y agoWhat do you think MacOS since v10 is?
- 9rx 1y agoMacOS v10+ accounts for NeXTSTEP, but what do you consider to be the current MacOS (classic) to satisfy the not having one less operating system condition?
- tracker1 1y agoOh noes... you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers?
- 9rx 1y agoTell us more about this "you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers" MacOS classic successor. Does the project have a website? What kind of systems does it run on? How do we acquire it?
- tracker1 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems
- 9rx 1y ago'you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers' is strangely absent from your list. Perhaps it has a shorter trade name?
- turnsout 1y agolmao ok