Posting this because of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12217170

The idea that a big company could try to get smaller competitors to churn technically by constantly disrupting the tech ecosystem was discussed by Joel Spolsky in 2002. It may always have been a bizarre conspiracy theory (and some of Joel's to technical calls in that article were wrong), but it could be accurate. It certainly could have been influential when written.