foocorp

FooCorp easily sails to an angel round sized in the high six or low seven figures based on this.

You seem to believe the point of the email was to convince Joseph that Acme was better than FooCorp.

The same e-mail could be sent by FooCorp or any other competitor in that space.

FooCorp then hires, say, a half-dozen engineers to help their founders build things out.

Sure, FooCorp should work on their marketing, but that's in their interest, not yours.

What if FooCorp has automated much more than Acme, and even with lower prices actually has both better profits per sale and better functionality?

FooCorp has a team of talented product people working for it.

Let's say I am a developer working at FooCorp and my employer provides an insurance for any accidents caused during work.

The more we push back against this, the harder it is for that big-wig at FooCorp to deny that DRM has downsides.

For example: > My name is Bob, I'm a security researcher at FooCorp.

FooCorp's product is quite beloved by early users.

However in the end you do have to trust people no matter what you do, so if you're willing to trust FooCorp's binaries then just go into decision with eyes open.

Or maybe Acme is afraid that FooCorp will refute their argument about a so-called "race to the bottom"...

If it was popular enough, then the random "FooCorp: Baz proposal 2015.docx" might be worth something.

Thanks, Me, Foocorp """ If anything comes of it, good.

Just aslong as they say how they have to work around the FooCorp fuck up rather than saying something like "Dunno how we did it, it just works".