[OT] EEE, Re: Tangentially: on Canonical being a great company?
On Wed 13 Mar 2019 at 23:19:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 March 2019 22:19:37 David wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 08:24, <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, March 13, 2019 04:51:57 PM deb wrote:
> > > > * they sleep with Microsoft of E-E-E fame.
> > >
> > > Ok, I'll bite -- what is E-E-E?
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
>
> To further clarify, they buy (the Embrace) then Extend both it and their
> OS in incompatible ways so everyone has to buy the new version, and when
> that very predictably fails to generate the sales surge they were
> expecting, they discontinue it, thereby Extinguishing the competition.
>
> Worked well thru the 90's and 2000's but not being done quite so
> obviously now.
Less by Microsoft, and perhaps less by Walmart nowadays, but the
tradition is continued by the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.
while any idea of government regulation is branded as "socialist".
Cheers,
David.
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