[dylan604]

I'm fine with some other company that has a track record of doing bad things to the things they've purchased, which is no different than the company I'm against buying this company.

How are you okay with MSFT? The logic is not very sound

[toyg]

I guess the parent's point was that it's better for Figma to be acquired by a company that clearly has a Figma-shaped hole in their lineup, rather than someone with a lot of existing overlap that will likely just strangle it quietly in the night.

[dylan604]

with a company infamous for "Embrace, extend, and extinguish", I wouldn't trust MSFT to recognize a hole needs to be filled.

[toyg]

TBF, they kept Skype, GitHub, and Minecraft, running fairly well - one can disagree on the features, but they did get continuous development and support, they weren't just "deprecated" and sunset like, say, Yahoo would do.

[DaiPlusPlus]

Microsoft has changed a lot since the late-1990s, really.