[bruceb]

I have read more than once Adobe might secretly be ok with this. Price agreed to before valuations fully cratered. I am sure Musk wished the DOJ could have helped him out as well.

[93po]

thank god someone mentioned musk, i was starting to shake because it had been more than 30 seconds

[triyambakam]

In 20 years the coolest new startup will be called ELON

[radley]

The nerdy one will be ELON. The cool one will be MUSK.

[kijin]

Perfect name if you want to develop electric rockets or somethin'.

[dmitriid]

Home electronics shop in Sweden https://www.elon.se/vitvaror

Since 1967

[benatkin]

They might be hoping to sue competitors like penpot for being similar to Figma, since Figma's IP would become Adobe's. Or maybe patent troll with some WASM patents, if Figma got them (they sure pioneered with WASM). I don't think suing competitors for having similar designs to Figma will work because penpot could change their design a bit, but it will slow it down.

[senttoschool]

It doesn't surprise me at all. $20b is massive overpay. That's Fall 2021 money.

[andsoitis]

> I am sure Musk wished the DOJ could have helped him out as well.

In what way? None of his existing businesses operate in even remotely the same market as Twitter.

[bruceb]

Security was floated as a reason: https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-elon-musk-twitter-deal...

I don't think was real possibility but was at least floated even it was to give something for partizans to chew on.