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[–] paequ2 180 points 3 days ago (5 children)

HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million... Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout

🀣 🀣 🀣

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 98 points 3 days ago (2 children)

HP. Now there's a company with an eye for the future! 🀭

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

What's good for Chrysler is good for America!

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 64 points 3 days ago

That still seems like a wildly high buyout.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even 116 mil is too much for this trash product.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They're not buying the product, they're buying the IP. the article literally says that HP doesn't give a fuck about the product/HW

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

If HP does anything with that IP they will 110% find a way to make it even worse.

'I'll give you tree-fiddy'

-HP, probably