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** Likewise, Intel's primary rival in desktop and laptop PC chips, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was founded by eight disgruntled Fairchild Semiconductor workers - in 1969.
* Huawei launched their own mobile services framework called Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) as a substitute for Google Play Services, as well as their own app store called AppGallery after Google stopped providing software support to Huawei due to US government sanctions; the AppGallery has existed prior to the company being sanctioned in 2019, though it was only available in China until 2018. For the remaining apps which couldn't be published to the AppGallery due to said sanctions or some other reason, they even came up with [https://www.huaweicentral.com/huawei-introduces-new-solution-to-install-third-party-apps-on-huawei-phones-with-open-source-android/ workarounds] such as directing users to download APK installation files from mirror sites such as APKPure, though compatibility may be hit-or-miss as some apps may require specific Google APIs to function correctly.
* When [https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/01/freenode_issues_help_irc_grow/ millionaire tech entrepreneur Andrew Lee bought the commercial entity behind the long-standing IRC network Freenode in early 2021 and made it his personal fiefdom] (possibly with an eye toward turning it into some manner of money-making engine), its all-volunteer staff abandoned the network ''en masse'' and started a new one called Libera.Chat.<ref>This so enraged Lee that he began banning anyone who even mentioned the new competitor and seizing control of any channel where it was mentioned, even those which said "we're not going to Libera.Chat, we're staying here", which [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|drove virtually all the remaining Freenode communities ''off'' Freenode and onto Libera.Chat anyway]] and left him with an empty IRC network devoid of both staff ''and'' users.</ref>
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