> Extending and extinguishing can and most certainly has taken place, whether a monetary incentive exists or not. Um, sure, but EEE is important because it was

> Extending and extinguishing can and most certainly has taken place, whether a monetary incentive exists or not. Um, sure, but EEE is important because it was a strategy and one that was executed repeatedly by Microsoft. On the other hand, just because some products have been "extinguished" (debatable) does not mean that was the strategy employed by GNU, nor does applying EEE here seem to serve any predictive function.