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IDA cybersecurity software provider Hex-Rays acquired

Source: Hacker News

Article note: A company so famous for their obnoxious licensing practices and inflated prices that cracking it using it is a routine joke, who have sprung significant competition in the last few years (at least Ghidra and the whole radare family on the FOSS side, Hopper and Binary Ninja on the commercial side). I'm not sure what an investment company hopes to get from it, it seems likely maybe the last of the original team is just cashing in on their way out.
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