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Continue to "embrace and extend"... - Nathan Myrvold I never realized this phrase originated from /within/ Microsoft!

• chrisseaton 5y ago
  Have you read the Hallowe'en Documents? Leaked Microsoft memoranda about their attitudes on open source and competition.
• bitwize 5y ago
  I did. I remember a press release that described Microsoft's policy w.r.t web standards as "embrace and extend" sometime in 1996 or so. I thought it was the embittered rest of the tech industry that added the "extinguish".
• bnt 5y ago
  You're missing "and extinguish"
  • wing-_-nuts 5y ago
    Hah, I mentally added it every time I read that phrase. The implication was pretty clear even in this email.
  • quux 5y ago
    Wasn't it "eradicate"? or am I misremembering?