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I would really like to say that Microsoft is currently infiltrating the OSS world and pursuing their strategy, which they have successfully implemented dozens o
by Padrio 7y ago
I would really like to say that Microsoft is currently infiltrating the OSS world and pursuing their strategy, which they have successfully implemented dozens of times. Does anyone remember EEE[0]? If this is the case here, it would be the greatest successful coup in the history of the Internet.
[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_Extend_and_Extinguish https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_Extend_and_Extinguish
- grx 7y agoWrote the same in another comment.. it's kinda brilliant but sad to watch at the same time. Microsoft's Github guys are geniuses if this is a part of a long-running EEE strategy. And people fall for it, because they have no principles and values, on which they decide what's good or damaging for Open Source.
- have_faith 7y agoEmbrace and extend makes sense. But wrt the open source world, how does extinguish fit in?
- mncmp 7y ago1) Corrupt OSS developers to produce OSS only for money. 2) Control top performers by pitching GitHub self-promotion experts with an agenda against them. 3) Make top performers leave OSS because the atmosphere has become hostile to meritocracy. 4) Try to take over existing code bases by hiring developers. 5) Make those developers push the above points inside "their" project (the key parts of which have usually been written by others).
- techntoke 7y agoGet developers locked in to a centralized ecosystem like GitHub, spread the marketing far and wide you use tools based on centralized platforms, encourage developers to utilize frameworks and programming languages that have poor support for open source platforms, etc.