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Legacy businesses actively neutralize decentralized competition by acquiring little known companies that hold highly competitive decentralized technologies, as Microsoft's acquisition of Skype illustrates.

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In their attempts to neutralize their decentralized competitor businesses, legacy businesses are acquiring little-known companies with highly competitive decentralized technologies.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021), I. Introduction, p. 4
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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incumbent firms facing decentralized technology competitors

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mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: Acquisition Capture of Decentralized Competitorsfamily: incumbent-resistance-to-adoptioneconomicsdecentralization

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