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Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More likely not.

Microsoft is well known for buying software companies to shut them down.

Foldershare was a product in 2005 that enabled you to share windows folders across the internet just like sharing across a LAN. MS bought them.

Same with Ubiboot - it enabled you to move a windows install from one machine to any other hardware - on boot it would reconfigure the drivers. Worked brilliantly.

I've used countless products over the years which no longer exist after they were acquired by MS. Things which don't even exist within MS offerings. Clearly bought to be shut down.

[–] whostosay 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This can't be right because capitalism breeds innovation like they said! Right? .....Right??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does. Those were both innovative products.

Not sure why you feel the need to derail the conversation with your ideology.

[–] whostosay 1 points 7 months ago

Your conversation is about shelving products so other companies cannot compete.