sure, businesses often change what they're doing, but this one is a "you did WHAT" example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findev

@eloy wait, how did they develop a proprietary fork of wine when wine is LGPL?

@noisytoot the secret ingredient is crime

but idk

@noisytoot @eloy it was a fork of the last wine version released before they relicensed to LGPL

@eloy @nachtpfoetchen
I see gaming to real estate and raise you mining to tourism:

"TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997, when the company changed its activities from mining to tourism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group

@lethe @nachtpfoetchen oh waow, thanks for sharing this one, wasn't aware!

@eloy that's sorta bizarre. But then again, one of the biggest real estate investment trusts in Manhattan, Vornado, started out making cheap household fans you used to be able to buy at KMart or the Century catalog.

@the_turtle also reminds me of Berkshire Hathaway. But then they later acquired Fruit of the Loom so they made a full circle in textiles

@noisytoot @eloy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega_(software)

Apparently Wine was MIT licensed originally and they switched to LGPL specifically because of this company's bullshit.