I'm not finding anything historical about companies abusing the free software community, but that chapter of history is still being written. There are examples

I'm not finding anything historical about companies abusing the free software community, but that chapter of history is still being written. There are examples of playing unfairly to gain dominance from the 90s through 2000s here though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... I am simply proposing that they are now in the "extend" phase with linux. It has been embraced. Now they will extend it (via the dev process, not the codebase) until it is unsustainable, and then it will be extinguished.