LSP could have been better

Re:LSP could have been better by throwaway50182 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:45AM (#37855501)

By this logic, they are also currently Embracing and Extending Windows, Office, etc. This doesn't make sense to me. It's their original products, not something they embraced and plan on extinguishing.

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Re:LSP could have been better by prometheon1 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:26AM (#37856232)

Windows and Office are both mentioned as products that are leveraged to do EEE on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

They are not extinguishing their own products, but using their products to extinguish alternatives. The example I mentioned actually fits the wikipedia definition quite well in my opinion.

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Re:LSP could have been better by mjw1007 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:20PM (#37860081)

CSS was to a large extent a Microsoft project (when the time came to introduce stylesheets it was more-or-less Opera and Microsoft against Netscape, and Microsoft had many more users than Opera).

Nonetheless Microsoft managed to use CSS to achieve a great deal of user lock-in by refusing to conform to the standard they co-authored.

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Re:LSP could have been better by throwaway50182 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:17PM (#37863883)

Well then that's clearly not EEE. There can be more predatory market strategies than just EEE.

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Re:LSP could have been better by prometheon1 on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:54PM (#37875517)

- Embrace the web with Internet Explorer.

- Extend the web with CSS as an open standard.

- Extinguish competition by being the main browser and not following the CSS standard.

Still follows the recipe quite well in my opinion.

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