Epilogue - When a FOSS-Using Company Is Acquired By A Conglomerate

• The company was eventually closed, and then sold to a very large international software company.
• Most of the due-diligence had to do with.... software licenses.
• It appears that the lawyers of said company wanted to be absolutely sure that any little thing used by the software had a license that is acceptable for a proprietary product.
• Apparently, that company is quite afraid of FOSS software, and had a hard time absorbing the idea.
• On the other hand - it might have been an excuse to delay the purchase until the next fiscal year.
• Eventually, since the project was written using such "alien technologies", the team gained (at least until now) more freedom in its development process then other teams inside that company.

Originally written by guy keren