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by cuuupid 42 days ago
Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company
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When a company is acquired, sometimes the company's products get a new lease on life, and sometimes the company's products are killed, or allowed to die.
> Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company

Correction: for the investors.

Acquired is such a euphemism for died which is usually mourned by users.
Some of these acquired products aren't dead or even in maintenance mode though, they're still running. So it doesn't really make sense to include them in a graveyard, among the other very much alive projects like Streamlit and LangFuse, or missing dead projects like Sora.

This is just slop. I wouldn't give this too much attention.