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The counterpart to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was spreading FUD: "fear, uncertainty, and doubt". This was the strategy they took towards Linux, which as
by hsitz 10y ago
The counterpart to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was spreading FUD: "fear, uncertainty, and doubt". This was the strategy they took towards Linux, which as open source was not susceptible to embrace, extend, extinguish. So the Microsoft propaganda machine was used to make people afraid of open source, in many different ways.
The current course of Microsoft appears to have changed a lot, with open source being accepted and even "embraced". If someone can explain to me how embrace, extend, and extinguish could apply to Linux, I'd be curious to hear.
- dispose13432 10y agoWhat will happen if programmers feel "comfortable" on WSL and MS doesn't implement (or worse, breaks) a system call? Or, what about if MS decides to make a "nice" "new" system call, whose implementation is closed source. Will Apache now have to maintain a fork for Windows WSL and Linux? Will Linux now have to create a Wine-like project to reverse-engineer and fix all the WSL bugs and copy features?