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Originally Posted by theducks
Zod
As a former Silicon Valley worker, it IS common for companies to buy up others for the purpose of acquiring specific PATENTS they would like to use.
A short period later (just long enough that the regulators are kept away), they sell off the 'extras', lay off most of the former employees.
(and it is un-provable that some were bought simply to kill off a competing product)
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If I was an overdrive employee, I would be very worried, given KKRs treatment of other companies staff.e.g.toys r us.
But the good parts of the overdrive system will probably live on, unless it is written in a way that is expensive to maintain, hard to merge with the rbdigital product.
I once worked for a bank that was taken over by a bigger one, they threw out very good software, well customised for local market i, n order to have an inferior "one size fits all " global product that was a local disaster.