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Re:GitHub Sponsors by Padrio on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:42AM (#19990090)
I would really like to say that Microsoft is currently infiltrating the OSS world and pursuing their strategy, which they have successfully implemented dozens of times. Does anyone remember EEE[0]? If this is the case here, it would be the greatest successful coup in the history of the Internet.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_Extend_and_Extinguish

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by grx on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:49AM (#19990136)
Wrote the same in another comment.. it's kinda brilliant but sad to watch at the same time. Microsoft's Github guys are geniuses if this is a part of a long-running EEE strategy. And people fall for it, because they have no principles and values, on which they decide what's good or damaging for Open Source.
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by have_faith on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:39AM (#19990403)
Embrace and extend makes sense. But wrt the open source world, how does extinguish fit in?
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by techntoke on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:42AM (#19992745)
Get developers locked in to a centralized ecosystem like GitHub, spread the marketing far and wide you use tools based on centralized platforms, encourage developers to utilize frameworks and programming languages that have poor support for open source platforms, etc.
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