I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.

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      To be slightly fair a decent number of those are redundant or were successfully merged into other projects while others were clearly very experimental in nature.

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        That’s just the nature of corporate pirates, they loot and plunder what they can use and integrate into their own products then scuttle the rest

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          Most often not even taking the things that made the plundered product great in the first place, unfortunately.

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            Most times companies do acquisitions just because they want to get a patent, or just hire the dev team with specific skills. The product for them was worthless from the beginning,