[w0rd-driven]

This also accurately describes what Microsoft purchased with LinkedIn. It still isn't the best platform in terms of what it covered but there's immense value in the community that was purchased. Because I see the pattern now, I'm curious what other communities will get folded into the MS ecosystem as a result in the future.

[alien_]

Skype was also a similar purchase. The pattern seems to be about dominant companies in the productivity/development space.

I wouldn't be surprised if companies like Atlassian, Slack, Jetbrains, Docker or Hashicorp are next.