I've read at least several stories from this era like AppGet's https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22

I wouldn't trust Microsoft near my open source code base in 3 centuries

They can extinguish it by just stealing all the code, and using their bigger marketplace advantage to become the defacto standard.

I'm fairly impressed Microsoft managed not to name their Redis competitor "Cache", just to pollute the keyspace like they do with so many of their other products.

LMAO they're so evil its even mildly funny

I guess it will depend on your definition of "extinguish" and a few other things but:

gestures wildly at the MIT-licenced VSCode codebase

Yes, they are not rug pulling the VSCode source but by locking down the marketplace (and never giving a truly open source VSCode, what developers think of as "VSCode") they are in the processes of locking out forks.

Ah so this is like how Android being open source was (almost) always bullshit. You had to play all kinds of google dances to get the google apps on them.

Fair point! good example of an attempt to extinguish.

I couldn't agree more with the Android comparison, I made the same comparison to VSCode a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787009