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pekk on April 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An acquisition is always a failure

These are wins for the buyer, not as clearly for the seller. Of course, if the seller sold voluntarily then it seems silly to argue that it wasn't what they wanted.

lxm on April 3, 2013 [–]

Seller has a product, buyer has distribution. For each Android, NeXT and QDOS there's a bunch of similar companies that went nowhere.

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