Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, John Ames wrote:

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:01:24 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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We were chased by a listed company wanting to make a story for the
stock market.

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Just make sure you aren't too attached to what you've built. My employer
was acquired by one of those "97 MBAs and a dozen vulture capitalists"
outfits when the founder wanted to retire, and ever since it's been a
constant struggle for management on our end to stave off the attempts
of a bunch of know-nothing suits to run us into the ground with full-on
FYPM policies towards pricing, licensing, and customer service...

Sounds like the clowns who acquired SUSE linux. Absolute disaster. It is very strange that those types of people are earning the amount of money they do.
Surely it must only be about finding the greater fool, and nothing about actually creating value.

As my business partner's wife seemed determined to wreck the company,
we decided a sale would be the optimal strategy.

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...but then, in your case it sounds like a lateral move at worst ;)
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