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@Flipboard@flipboard.social @evan@cosocial.ca @Gargron@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @Sarahp@mastodon.social So the corps have officially started the "Embrace" stage and are planning the "Extend" one. Good to know at least this time is being done in the open.
@cygnathreadbare @Flipboard @Gargron @mmasnick @quillmatiq @Sarahp This comes up so often. I wonder if there is any good historical documentation for the strategy of dealing with "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" ...? I think the famous example of Microsoft's embrace of the web, and extension via ActiveX and other proprietary features, was headed off by vigorous defense of open standards by @tantek.com , Molly Holschlag, others in the Web Standards group. https://www.webstandards.org/
@cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza @Flipboard@flipboard.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @Sarahp@mastodon.social @tantek.com@tantek.com Probably having a very usable Firefox helped out with that a lot too.
I don't know if it would have made sense to prevent Microsoft from "embracing" the Web; we would have lost a lot of people and utility to the whole ecosystem.