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by RedShift1 570 days ago
Buy, extract as much money as possible, then dump the carcass. I'm sure they did the math on this.
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ChrisRR 570 days ago
Whenever companies make moves that people don't like, the comments go on as if they haven't thought any of it through

They knew they would lose customers, they've factored that into their business plan

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ar_lan 569 days ago
Considering half the comments are “Proxmox” and “Virtualbox/Parallels” are so much better anyway, I’m guessing most commenters in here are extremely naive and not aware of the IT landscape.
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ChrisRR 569 days ago
The issues of large scale infrastructure are so different to running a glorified NAS at home
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Y_Y 570 days ago
This is the classic "golden goose" strategy. Why wait around all week for steady returns when you can just rip the thing open and see what you can get for the internal organs.
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