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clueless2026today at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

British Hong Kong bank HSBC Holdings plc is the common institutional shareholder pushing for adding friction to self hosting to push customers to the cloud. Avago purchased Broadcom for the same reason. Not private equity, but Chinese-British banks.


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Our_Benefactorstoday at 5:46 PM

This sounds a bit tinfoily but given HSBCs history not impossible; can you show any additional sources to follow?