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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

tbh i care more about meta because of EEE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] kat_angstrom 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought Microsoft was the company that first embraced the whole "embrace, extend, extinguish" philosophy?

[–] mlg 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah but they ended up investing in apple to avoid more serious antitrust litigation from becoming a complete monopoly, and Linux ruined their chances of dominating the server maketshare.

Google just took it and did it more discretly over a longer period of time.