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EEE 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

EEE 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 ago
Their monopoly of... Text editors... The thing every developer and their sibling implements at some point in their career.
- always2slow 4y ago
  No, 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 ago
  Vendor lock-in is real, and powerful.
- Sirenos 4y ago
  Let's not pretend a weekend hobby text editor is anywhere near the feature set of VSCode.
- digisign 4y ago
  And yet every younger developer is encouraged and peer-pressured to use it. And they bought github of course. MS has outsmarted (almost) everyone again.