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As the author puts it: "It makes me less certain that this isn't the Extend in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
by thisiswater 6y ago
As the author puts it: "It makes me less certain that this isn't the Extend in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
- pydry 6y agoOther Microsoft OSS ventures makes me wonder if they haven't resurrected that policy too (e.g. the crippling slowness of azure mysql and azure postgres as compared to SQL server).
- pjmlp 6y agoGoogle has largely outpaced Microsoft on what concerns Extinguish.
- easton 6y agoCan you give some examples? I haven’t seen Google close source something lately, except for Go’s package hosting server (which makes me inclined to believe you, I just haven’t heard of other instances).
- ex_amazon_sde 6y ago"Extinguish" is often not the case in this decade. It's all about capturing market share aka creating user lock-in.
- hedora 6y agoUser lock-in is how Microsoft has traditionally extinguished competition. Microsoft Office is an early example. I know zero people that switched to it because they liked its functionality or user interface. They switched because nothing else could open Office documents correctly. Eventually, everyone I knew switched to it (and many happily switched away decades later, once “as-a-service” competition cropped up, solving the compatibility problem).