tl;dr; EEE is overused in many cases and thus not good conversation but this comment does bring a new spin that people can engage in. First for your general qu

tl;dr; EEE is overused in many cases and thus not good conversation but this comment does bring a new spin that people can engage in. First for your general question: I think that people get tired of seeing the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish come up in every single thread about Microsoft. It's a simple argument that seems to be overused and an easy grab for votes, or to bash Microsoft. If someone brings something new to the conversation by calling Embrace, Extend, Extinguish then I'm game for listening, but most the time it's just. Microsoft is a wolf in sheeps clothing look look they are Embracing. OH NOOOOOO. Open source? They can ALWAYS change their licenses? Runs on Linux? What are they going to do start offering free Windows 10 upgrades on Linux? Extinguish Extinguish! Microsoft is a huge company, some departments suck and are run by unethical dicks (looking at you Windows 10). Their developer tools have taken some huge steps lately and have had huge success. Visual Studio Code is used by a lot of people who don't like or dislike Windows, some don't even use windows. I'm just kind of done with this argument. Some comments on the OP: This particular "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" argument does bring something newish to the table calling this particular action one of the steps as foretold by our CS prophets on high. The OP gives a new spin and is on topic and shouldn't (imo) be down voted because it brings out healthy conversation (which is the point of reading comments on HN vs Reddit). If this were Reddit it would have been punnier.