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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is from an era where Open Source wasn't the default for infrastructure. I don't know how you can extinguish something that's MIT li

by atonse 1y ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is from an era where Open Source wasn't the default for infrastructure. I don't know how you can extinguish something that's MIT licensed and has a million copies around the world.

tough 1y ago
I've read at least several stories from this era like AppGet's https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22 https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22 I wouldn't trust Microsoft near my open source code base in 3 centuries They can extinguish it by just stealing all the code, and using their bigger marketplace advantage to become the defacto standard.
- Alupis 1y ago
  I'm fairly impressed Microsoft managed not to name their Redis competitor "Cache", just to pollute the keyspace like they do with so many of their other products.
  - tough 1y ago
    LMAO they're so evil its even mildly funny
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joshstrange 1y ago
I guess it will depend on your definition of "extinguish" and a few other things but: gestures wildly at the MIT-licenced VSCode codebase Yes, they are not rug pulling the VSCode source but by locking down the marketplace (and never giving a truly open source VSCode, what developers think of as "VSCode") they are in the processes of locking out forks.
- atonse 1y ago
  Ah so this is like how Android being open source was (almost) always bullshit. You had to play all kinds of google dances to get the google apps on them. Fair point! good example of an attempt to extinguish.
  - joshstrange 1y ago
    I couldn't agree more with the Android comparison, I made the same comparison to VSCode a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787009