alt Hacker NewsThey don't give a shit about making a good product, the literal only thing any of these ghouls care about is line going up in the short term, because if line goes up they can dump their investments and move on to the next entity that they can get their greedy claws on and devour.
This is becoming more and more of a problem. For a small software company it could become an asset. Tell customers they are privately owned and small, and therefore won't be acquired by VCs.
Traditionally big vendors were more trustworthy and stable, that's no longer the case.
Edit: I'm not talking about end users, most commercial software is licensed by companies.