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jeffbee on Feb 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zoom lays off 15% of employees

That ... does not sound like it would work. Zoom is a success because the founder and the founding team came with decades of video conference experience and really just re-implememted webex/cisco products without any bullshit. What do any of these people know about hosting email?

ec109685 on Feb 7, 2023 [–]

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

I'd add that Chat seems like a modern day corollary.

jeffbee on Feb 7, 2023 | [–]

Remember the time Facebook tried to take on Gmail? Neither does anyone else.

bismark on Feb 7, 2023 | | [–]

uh, I do? https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/facebook-email-killer/

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