Semtech, the company I'm angry at over LoRa being proprietary, is publicly traded.
And it's pretty small, only 13 billion dollars.
So I could just scrounge up 13 billion dollars to buy the company and make them open source the LoRa spec, but the biggest shareholder right now is Blackrock, who I might not be able to beat in a bidding war if they start driving the price up past 13 billion.
The question is, why do I assume Blackrock is so desperate to control everything, they won't let the public have the LoRa spec? Should I just try asking Blackrock nicely to take my side on this?
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Go for it
Can you help me scrounge up 13b please?
Interesting that it's public... I might grab a share or two
Might write them a letter, fr
For your endeavors, no less than 14b
Almost back down to the share price of when I first posted about it
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