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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by whalesalad on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:33PM (#23248855)
I’m on the fence. I resonate with your take on things, but I also have a bit of hope in me as well. At least outwardly their optics are looking much better and brighter, but I’m not sure what the real culture is like at present day.
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by seph-reed on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:12PM (#23249962)
Your optimism is inherently misplaced. Power is corruptive. Even if the people in power now aren't corrupted, there is no fail-safe in place to pull the plug if they ever hand off that power to someone who can't control it. It will happen, it always does.

There is historically no such thing as a trustworthy super-power unless it subsists overwhelmingly on the support of discerning people.

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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by prirun on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:35PM (#23250185)
You may hop off the fence if they do something like, oh, I don't know, buy Canonical to counter IBM buying RedHat. I'm surprised they didn't do it immediately after that.
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