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In case you hadn't noticed, "Embrace, extend and extinguish" is from 1995, 21 years ago.

• DoofusOfDeath 10y ago
  That's a good point. I guess the question is, in a case like this, what are the odds that the company's executive-level culture has changed? I don't know. The manner in which Microsoft pushed Windows 10 may be a data point.
  • mynameisvlad 10y ago
    A big part of the current senior leadership wasn't even at the company in 1995.
    • michaelmrose 10y ago
      The sco scam was in 2003 and the recent move towards arm devices that use treacherous computing to lock the user out of modifying their machine was recently who cares about 1995.
      • mynameisvlad 10y ago
        This whole thread is about EEE, which is a concept coined in 1995 and my reply was addressing >what are the odds that the company's executive-level culture has changed? So, quite relevant.
        • michaelmrose 10y ago
          The point is that they have been user and competitive marketplace hostile far more recently than 1995.
• treebeard901 10y ago
  The "embrace, extend, extinguish" meme is largely overused these days in reference to Microsoft. If the trend towards using the cloud continues and the desktop OS becomes more of a terminal to cloud services then we could be looking at a modern version of "EEE". Embrace linux for the customers, extend Windows software to Linux for those customers, and let market trends extinguish the desktop OS.
  • pjmlp 10y ago
    The interesting bit is that FOSS movement that created the modern mainframe, aka browser + cloud, just made it even easier for companies to leech on free software and user data.
• jotato 10y ago
  > In case you hadn't noticed, "Embrace, extend and extinguish" is from 1995, 21 years ago. You jut made me feel old :(
• delecti 10y ago
  Additionally, it seems it's pretty much the standard way to do business in the tech world these days.