[zdragnar]

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish - the Microsoft strategy (per their internal documents) towards anything it didn't control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...

Adopt an open standard, add proprietary bits so that content worked best (or exclusively) on their own version, and force other players and competitors out.

[4gotunameagain]

coughGITHUBcough

I'm terribly sorry, I could not resist.

[aliswe]

eg Inter-repo forks existed prior to the acquisition though.

[sirsinsalot]

See: WSL

[4ggr0]

What's the EEE-strategy behind WSL?

[incomplete]

yeah, i'm curious about this too. i've spoken to many high level folks in MSR (microsoft research) and they're all massive proponents of open-source software and unix and are as excited as i am about being able to open a 'native-ish' *nix terminal and do work.

in fact, i've got my win10 box set up for dev, and it's nearly identical to my mac! it wasn't 100% straightforward, and to get windowed emacs working from the cli took a little twiddling, but overall in less than a few hours i had everything running flawlessly. :)

[zdragnar]

The challenge Microsoft faces now is that "embrace" is actually a great thing, but now some people will always assume an ulterior motive.