Re:Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
by charcircuit on Sunday December 03, 2023 @05:19PM
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This is a 25 year old example of it being used externally by a Microsoft executive. This is not the same thing as the belief where every Microsoft team is locally applying this strategy.
https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-proposed-findings...
91.3.2. Paul Maritz also explained to Intel representatives that Microsoft's response to the browser threat was to "embrace, extend, extinguish"; in other words, Microsoft planned to "embrace" existing Internet standards, "extend" them in incompatible ways, and thereby "extinguish" competitors.