• palordrolap@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.

    The fact they’ve been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don’t have such a plan. Or won’t ever have one.

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      10 months ago

      Seems unlikely with how they work now. You also can’t really extinguish foss.

      .Net is cross platform and open source as well now.

      Maybe if Linux becomes a competitor in the desktop market. But I don’t see that happening any time soon.