I dont think it takes much courage to see how the idea extends/applies to a broader strategy, of entering a market, taking it over, and then ruining competitors

I dont think it takes much courage to see how the idea extends/applies to a broader strategy, of entering a market, taking it over, and then ruining competitors. Leaving a final result of marketplace dominion, now ready for rampant exploitation. Now that no one can stop you. That this tactic happened to work for open source & standards seems like less than 50% of it's relevance to me. The general idea seems self-substantial. Of all the pieces, I think "embrace" probably requires the most fudging, the most overcoming of internal "is it really though?" in permitting ourselves to see similarity. Even "enshittification" ("of tiktok")[1] feels notably within this general pattern, of getting good to get bad. Microsoft's specific embrace was to go after standards & open source projects, but whether we select only a focus to make us naive to the strategy & how it still apploes is up to how much we want to bind our minds. [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys