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by CRConrad 694 days ago
> These engineers aren’t incentivized to create lock-in.

Ever heard of something called “money”?

> I think it’s more likely that sometimes for a feature to play well with other existing parts of the Windows ecosystem, compromises are made to the standards-compliance.

So you're basically saying that you're too young to remember the “good” old days of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, right...?