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The phrase "Embrace, extend, extinguish" comes from Microsoft. [1]

There is one actor I don't trust with that, it is them. I'll move my repos next weekend. Maybe that's the call I needed to self host...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

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That phrase is from over 20 years ago...

Phrases don't lose their relevance due to age. If they do, they do it because the situation has changed, and similar situations haven't come up.

For example, the phrase "doublespeak" is much older and also especially relevant today.

The phrase is still valid, but it is unclear that it applies to the current company. Companies do not have minds and are not people. They do have inertia, but if you change enough of the people then it's fundamentally a different company. MS is certainly different than it was 20 or 10 years ago.

MS was fined by EU for monopoly practices in 2008 and 2013. It is currently in a case against Spain when it made it harder to dual boot with Windows 8's UEFI systems.

The year is 2018 and Windows still ships with a single navigator, only supports NTFS and does not know that dual-boot is even a possibility.

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