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So sneaky, embracing and extending open source software... That they wrote. Any day now. Gonna extinguish it. Cuz... Why again?
by moron4hire 4y ago
So sneaky, embracing and extending open source software... That they wrote. Any day now. Gonna extinguish it. Cuz... Why again?
- always2slow 4y agoEEE is a long term play. The 'Why?' is to secure their monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish#Strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- moron4hire 4y agoTheir monopoly of... Text editors... The thing every developer and their sibling implements at some point in their career.
- always2slow 4y agoNo, they want to monopolize computing. And actually, yeah they do kind of have a monopoly on text editing, everyone who isn't a programmer uses Microsoft Word. Which they did by using EEE. You could import different formats into Word but good luck exporting it.
- fartcannon 4y agoVendor lock-in is real, and powerful.
- Sirenos 4y agoLet's not pretend a weekend hobby text editor is anywhere near the feature set of VSCode.
- digisign 4y agoAnd yet every younger developer is encouraged and peer-pressured to use it. And they bought github of course. MS has outsmarted (almost) everyone again.