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This seems like the exact opposite of EEE. Care to explain your thinking?
by jaywalk 6y ago
This seems like the exact opposite of EEE. Care to explain your thinking?
- hkt 6y agoOne assumes the idea is to make windows have feature parity with linux, then try to leverage network effects for features windows has but linux doesn't, such that the "extinguish" step will follow the "extend" step.
- jaywalk 6y agoThat's called "being better than the competition" and not really what EEE was meant to describe.
- bztzt 6y agoI'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valuable.
- zhengyi13 6y agoIf you're thinking in EEE terms, this is Embrace. Extend and Extinguish come later, once you've got a preponderance of developers on your platform.
- 1970-01-01 6y agoLinux is cited as an example in the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish#cite_note-27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...