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On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:52:36 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D=E2=80=99Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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... =20
>=20
> 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.