From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:52:36 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  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 ... ?   
      
   Still here as of this writing, ~4.5 years later.   
      
   > You really think "buy out and shut down competitor" is not a common   
   > business tactic?   
      
   Sure is! But given that it was *our competitors* making materially   
   false claims about *our product* being due for cancellation, when in   
   truth they represented neither us nor our parent company, I can't see   
   how that's relevant.   
      
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