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by naikrovek 2143 days ago
When you are a software company and you buy another software company or you buy a product from another software company, you do not intend to maintain their software. You are purchasing the users, and adding them to your own userbase. That's the only reason to buy a competitor.

Sometimes there are some token gestures, but it always boils down to "we can't compete to gain these users, so we'll buy them."