No. Anthropic need Bun to be healthy because they use it for Claude Code.

tshaddox 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't that still "acqui-hiring" according to common usage of the term?

Sometimes people use the term to mean that the buyer only wants some/all of the employees and will abandon or shut down the acquired company's product, which presumably isn't the case here.

But more often I see "acqui-hire" used to refer to any acquisition where the expertise of the acquired company are the main reason to the acquisition (rather than, say, an existing revenue stream), and the buyer intends to keep the existing team dynamics.

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simonw an hour ago | parent [-]

Acquihiring usually means that the product the team are working on will be ended and the team members will be set to work on other aspects of the existing company.

	▲	tshaddox 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That is part of the definition given in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, but I think it’s a blurry line when the acquired company is essentially synonymous with a single open source project and the buyer wants the team of experts to continue developing that open source project.

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PetrBrzyBrzek 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it’s an acquihire, and they also like Bun.

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elktown 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But it seems like that could happen faster internally than publicly?