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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by tryauuum on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:08PM (#23249925)
to think about it... Microsoft also owns Minecraft, so a ten year old redstone scientist is already locked in, even without Git, NPM and all those things
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by negativegate on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:35PM (#23250192)
Locked in ... to a game?
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by mds on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:46PM (#23250933)
You laugh, but Minecraft Education Edition -- where lots of kids are getting their first exposure to coding -- is locked to Office 365.
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by tryauuum on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:00PM (#23250456)
yeah, sounds silly
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by briantakita on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:14PM (#23249983)
And then there's the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that funds the World Health Organization & invests in Bayer/Monsanto among other medical & food entities. The vendor lock in is Cradle to Grave it seems...
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Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish by briantakita on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:03PM (#23266618)
Oh no! An "inconvenient" & related fact is mentioned. Better downvote the HN way.
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