• @UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though? Not sure what they’re trying to achieve with this move that isn’t detrimental to their business.

    • meat_popsicle
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      12 years ago

      Squeeze the existing users for cash.

      The enterprises will just pay it. It’ll be cheaper than a migration for critical servers.

      Corps pull the same gameplay each time:

      1. Buy product
      2. Jack prices to the roof
      3. Kill R&D and enshittify support to minimize cost
      4. Extract profit until other products make a higher profit margin
      5. Shutdown support and repeat with a new product