Comment by baybal2

> As I once told one of their sales execs, "quit worrying about people pirating your system and worry about people ignoring it".

That's a very frequent comment about tech companies with underperforming sales.

This is how ARM leapfrogged MIPS around 2010. Their licensing was basicaly "you are buying a USB stick". MIPS on other hand was "pre-pay us $100k just to have our attorney to take a look on if we can sell to you"

In those "deep" tech companies, it's absolutely not unusual to have sales staffed by people with zero background knowledge, but nevertheless star sales professionals.