From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:33:45 -0800, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > It's astonishing how blatant salesgoons are about this kind of   
   > thing. When $EMPLOYER got acquired by another company a few years   
   > back, we had a competitor running around telling customers our   
   > product was "going away" and even pretending to be the official   
   > replacement. Naturally, they said this over the phone rather than in   
   > an e-mail, so we never got anything legally actionable on them...   
      
   How soon after that *did* the product go away ... ?   
      
   You really think “buy out and shut down competitor” is not a common   
   business tactic?   
      
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