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[–] Willie@lemmy.world 83 points 3 days ago (11 children)

If Nintendo went belly up today, Microsoft would buy them.

That'd be kind of sad.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 37 points 3 days ago (7 children)

If Microsoft went belly up today, the retro community and linux community would have a field day.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oracle or someone worse would buy them. That's how capitalism works.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If Oracle went belly up the world would unite in peace and harmony.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

99% of the world has no idea who that is.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Most people dont even know what an OS is, nevermind java. (Insert relevant xkcd here).

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 3 days ago

Really goes a long way to show how impactful their ceaseistance will be, eh?

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