Did they though? No price announced which means it's not even clear if investors and employees were made whole.
True. Maybe ROI wasn't the right phrase.
Do you like to see these stories as a customer/user or as a founder/investor?
As an open source contributor and community member.
Maybe you're not aware of what happens when big companies buy smaller companies that were the main stewards of open source projects. There are many comments in here detailing how much can and usually goes wrong (for contributors, users and the community at large).
Oh, I'm aware. Cisco will most likely fuck this up somehow. But this story will inspire other small companies to invest in contributing to the open source supply chain which is good for all of us.