IP: Why Being Acquired by Microsoft Makes Hardly Anyone Happy in the Long Run

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 12:31:47 -0400
> From: anonymous
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> My daughter forwarded this article which I thought was pretty interesting.
> Tim
> --
> Be Careful What You Wish For
>
> Is being acquired by Microsoft a blessing or a curse?  According to
> the folks Bob Cringely talked to, the money is nice. But when it comes
> to the acquired company's future -- as was the case for Hotmail --
> things dqon't always turn out as the company founders intended. ...
>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19990826.html
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