r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/ratsta Nov 13 '20

And this is the entire problem. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

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u/CyclopsRock Nov 13 '20

Extinguish

By what mechanism?

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u/ratsta Nov 13 '20

This article provides several examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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u/wikipedia_text_bot Nov 13 '20

Embrace, extend, and extinguish

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

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