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Acquihiring usually means that the product the team are working on will be ended and the team members will be set to work on other aspects of the existing compa
by simonw 1y ago
Acquihiring usually means that the product the team are working on will be ended and the team members will be set to work on other aspects of the existing company.
- tshaddox 1y agoThat is part of the definition given in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, but I think it’s a blurry line when the acquired company is essentially synonymous with a single open source project and the buyer wants the team of experts to continue developing that open source project.
- dcre 1y agoNo it isn’t. That’s not an acquihire. They’re keeping the product.
- tshaddox 1y agoThe team is continuing to develop the open source project that was synonymous with the company, but they're explicitly no longer going to try to monetize it. I think that squarely counts as an acquihire according to common usage.