[quote name='Liquid 2']People are always laid off in big mergers. There are people who do the same thing; you don't need the extra. They take what they need, leave the rest to rot, and there's one less competitor for them.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but big company mergers that consist of a bunch of people who sit in cubicles who get laid off is a little different than this, where the people being laid off are personalities, not just workers.
If they've got so much money that they can purchase a company for the sole purpose of killing it off, why not allow it to flourish and make more money off of it?