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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by r00fus on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:09AM (#17225060)
Did you forget the Extend, Extinguish parts of the strategy, or are you just paraphrasing EEE to make it sound somewhat ok?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by pitkali on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:22AM (#17225631)
Pretty sure he means that just seeing symptoms of Embrace is not enough to sound the alarm that it's going to be extended and extinguished.

After all, what's the point of building software, if it's never embraced, aka, used?

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by zentiggr on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:48AM (#17227191)
The typical implication of "Embrace" in these EEE uses is not 'figure out how to work in tandem with' but more 'how can we the amoeba surround and prepare to Extinguish this'.

Hence the justified caution and monitoring of a known extinguisher.

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