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Eh? I'm saying they are exactly doing EEE, at a corporate level This extinguishing of a bunch of taken-over staff might be a natural consequence of the 'merge
by jacknews 3y ago
Eh?
I'm saying they are exactly doing EEE, at a corporate level
This extinguishing of a bunch of taken-over staff might be a natural consequence of the 'merger' (duplicate roles and all that), but the embrace itself was totally invalid if you ask me.
- mort96 3y agoThe part which comes after the embrace is extend.. ..and it's a very specific strategy, about "embracing" an existing standard (integrating it into their products and pushing it), then adding a bunch of non-standard "extensions" to the standard, which "extinguishes" the standard and the other implementations because now everyone's writing against Microsoft's proprietary version instead of the actual standard. Think "Works best in Internet Explorer" web pages which used ActiveX controls (Microsoft's "extension" to the web), or Microsoft's Java implementation which omitted the standard JNI and introduced Microsoft's own proprietary FFI solution to make sure Java programs written for Windows wouldn't work on other systems. I struggle to see the connection to this ActiBlizz/Xbox case. EEE doesn't stand for "embrace then extinguish".