It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

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    6 months ago

    Framework is a private company so they need to agree to be bought. I don’t know enough about the leadership to be able to say the likelihood of accepting an offer, but it’s not just a thing that automatically happens because Dell has a lot of money.

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      6 months ago

      Money talks.

      When the owners of a private company are offered millions more than they’ll likely make over the nest ten years, the odds of selling are very high.

      Look at all the software devs that gets bought.

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        6 months ago

        There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge, like the VLC dev

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          There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge

          The story is literally about a funding round for Framework. Those investors don’t just give away the money. They buy a stake in the company.

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          Yes, the exception. That simply supports my argument.

          And we’re talking about stuff we see. Again, I bet you’d never heard of FolderShare or UbiBoot before I mentioned them here, and those are just 2 tools of many that I’ve lost to acquisitions over the years.

          How many other tools/products have companies quietly acquired and killed that we don’t know about?

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          Exceptions are possible.

          And being exceptions proves the norm.

          I’ve seriously lost countless tools because MS acquired them and shut them down. Thousands of dollars gone.

          I’m not holding my breath.

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      6 months ago

      Also, Dell buying someone doesn’t mean that the product stops being made. Dell bought Alienware and still makes devices for that market segment under the Alienware brand, including laptops. Lenovo bought the Thinkpad laptop line from IBM and still makes those.