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5 days agoEmbrace, extend, extinguish.
Microsoft embraced github by buying it. They extended the features and ease of use to where it’s the primary website people use for sharing and collaborating on code. Now it extinguishes any alternative.


Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Microsoft embraced github by buying it. They extended the features and ease of use to where it’s the primary website people use for sharing and collaborating on code. Now it extinguishes any alternative.


Vagueposting clickbait? On the internet!? For views and clicks!?! The website is AIDS it’s so full of ads!?
Embrace extend extinguish is a well known pattern microslop uses to kill open source alternatives. You’re right it was already big which is why they embraced it (we’re both agreeing here) all I’m saying is they make sure it’s impossible to develop an alternative due to network effects and vendor default lock in. “Embrace extend extinguish” is From their own internal communications found during discovery.