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But as soon as you've sold something, isn't it up to the new owner to decide what to do with whatever it is you've sold?
by asjo 17y ago
But as soon as you've sold something, isn't it up to the new owner to decide what to do with whatever it is you've sold?
- nostrademons 17y agoLegally, yeah. But many startup founders consider carefully what the new owner is going to do with their creation before selling it. That's the responsible thing to do, because there're users who don't have a legal say in the transaction, but will often be impacted quite severely if the new owner buys a product to kill it. Look at the outcry when the Etherpads sold their company to Google so it could be killed, for example.
- asjo 17y agoSelling to Sun would not seem to me to be a move directed by such careful consideration. Hindsight is 20-20, of course, but still - I don't remember thinking of it as a good move for the future of MySQL at the time.