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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
Remember also that huge companies by up small companies that they feel are a threat and then just bury them...
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Yup. Proprietary software become theirs to do whatever they want with it. Often to just make it disappear. Ebay was doing this every other week back in the late 1990's, early 2000's with various start-ups.
I think they even tried to claim ownership of the "Buy It Now" button at one point, because they bought out the guy who said he "invented" it. LOL!
I might have made that last part up...........but I'm not entirely sure about that.
