Attachment results in suffering.
The life cycle of a corporation is as follows:
founded
makes a good product or at least something people want
improves it for a while
when improvement yields less value than the cost of improvement, improvement stops
cost on sequels and nostalgia and an older customer base
sell out to a larger company. Drop a lot of the talent
some old founders/employees start a new product/company.
repeat.
Once you realize this, you realize its okay to let go of things you once liked. After all, once bought/acquired/adopted, these are ultimately depreciating assets. Don't believe? Look at how internet explorer dropped its own code, and then became chromium based. And now microsoft is cancelling internet explorer entirely.
In twenty years time windows will be based on linux. Assuming we're not all living in a mad-max style cannibal hellscape.
Which I suppose is still preferable to the current dystopian communist hellscape the west is living through.
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