Yeah, Ma Bell breaking up into the Baby Bells is the only real example I can think of, and even they came back together later (though, by then, there was enough diversity in the market that they couldn’t reclaim the level of market dominance they once had)

That’s what I’ve heard… Getting real tired of people building great products only for corpos to find a way to make it terrible for an extra buck

To the new system you’re migrating to

Well, I had been considering one, but I guess not

I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…