• Lemminary
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    212 months ago

    My big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s

    • @Comment105@lemm.ee
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      192 months ago

      Because business majors only know how to exploit good things that would be better off without them.

      If the good thing is left to just be better off without them – while they fuck around with a separate thing – then people will never be interested in the business majors’ product.

      • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        My impression of business majors is that they get hired by people who have to use a search engine to know who to hire.

        • @Comment105@lemm.ee
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          22 months ago

          Business majors just get more authority than they ought to. They should be treated more like secretaries and advisors in most cases, not bosses.

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      182 months ago

      MBAs love taking an existing brand and sucking whatever value they can extract. Like chupacabras but for functioning and useful products.

    • bitwolf
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      iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.

      Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into

      • @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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        The funny thing is the whole commercialization process started with one of the future partners messaging the project lead out of the blue on LinkedIn. I don’t know about you, but taking ideas from a random LinkedIn user doesn’t strike me as good business sense.

        Then again, getting something out of your years of unpaid volunteer work must be incredibly tempting, given how many open source projects have sold out over the years. At least it was to form an actual legitimate company this time, unlike when SuperSU (the Android root solution before Magisk came along) sold themselves to a scummy foreign ad company. That one still ranks as the all time top WTF sale.