AAA@feddit.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automationEnglish
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5 months agoDouble edged sword, but yeah.
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Double edged sword, but yeah.
Acquisitions don’t need to pay for themselves. Ideally they do, but sometimes it’s enough if they just help the company’s main business stay in business, or grow.
IBM is making $30bn+ in gross profit each year.
Just like the OG Pirate Bay. They closed down, and someone else, unknown, took over.
That’s not unproblematic ofc as the new owner can do whatever they want without the oversight of the non-profit.
Good initiative, but it feels a like the precursor to becoming a legit business.
No there isn’t. Companies are incentivised to extract as much money as possible from any given buyer. There is never a “this is enough money, I won’t charge you more” situation. Inevitably every buyer will become a non-buyer, because they were outpriced.
Competition should solve this issue, but it doesn’t work in media because there’s no two rights holders for star wars content, or marvel content, or whatever. So services cannot compete on the same content, because the rights holders simply won’t let them.
Copyright is a pest.