ICQ was never the less a revolutionary one, the first IM to catch millions of users, yet, it took two or three years for ICQ to be far behind MSN, Skype and GMail Chat. Let alone recent social netwroking revolution where ICQ is not a even player in the game.

Winamp (from nullsoft) - The greatest music player, where is it now? Where is Itunes or any other web based music services and where is Winamp?

XDrive - Dropbox anyone?

And the list goes on, take a look on the list and tell which one have grown up and more popularity ever since it was acquired by AOL.

Another issue raisd with this purchase is simply conflict of interests.

Can we rely on a review published by a domninant player? Techcrunch is very good at reviewing startups, web products and services, Techcrunch was so far quite reliable and trustworthy.

I think it was for its own good that the crunchpad have not made it finally as integral part of techcrunch, since this gave readers the feling that a review of an iPad/HP/Dell/Smasung pads is neutral and blanaced. If Techcrunch itself were manufacturing pads, no one would have think, ipad review on techcrunch is worth reading.

But this is not the case anymore.

Would love to get our great community opinions on this issues and in general, about "making an exit", knowing your baby startup is about to die in the new owners hands.