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Beeper is joining Automattic (blog.beeper.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hate the euphemism of "joining". It's not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.

It's one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.

Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it's one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That wouldn't make for very good marketing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.

Anti Commercial AI thingy

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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 spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or how about we don't link to marketing articles then??

The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.