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This got to be the extinguish phase from the EEE Microsoft playbook. Prior acquisition, Github was very liked and very focus, then Microsoft happened in their embrace phase, telling us EEE was something of the past. While trying to show good faith they extended the platform and this is now the very last phase

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>EEE

My god what an ancient trope.

Presumably you realize most current Microsoft employees were not even alive when the EEE memo was written.

Must we also talk about some decision Henry Ford made in 1906 every time the automaker is mentioned, or something the Gauls did in 200 BC every time England is mentioned?

You don't want to talk about it because either 1) you don't know it, or 2) you were downplaying it at the time, too.

The only time we talk about Henry Ford, unless it's about his anti-Semitism, is about decisions he made in 1906. If we go by your arbitrary standard, why would we talk about Henry Ford at all when we could talk about this year's Tesla model?

> See also Netscape v2.0 and 3.0, which were badass browsers back in 1996, but are similarly irrelevant today.

Why are you talking about Netscape? What does that have to do with anything happening right now?

I don't know if you know this but 2006 was a lot more recent than 1906, and some of the same people are still there

Maybe, but does Team Foundation Server even exist anymore? What is the MS branded service that degrading GitHub is supposed to drive people to?

Copilot, of course. Helpfully, every Microslop product is named Copilot Something now. Take your pick.

I don't believe this is true of the past, but it'd be quite the twist if the extinguish phase was really just pure incompetence this whole time. It certainly seems that way right now with GitHub.

What does EEE even mean in the context of a proprietary service that Microsoft owns? That is a strategy for killing open standards, which Github never was. It could be a thing for git itself, but Microsoft doesn't even have a git competitor.

Embrace: buy the biggest forge

Extend: add actions, drive adoption, move your own devs to it

Extinguish: enshittify until all that's left is ads for copilot

They knew GitHub was the, well, hub, for most open source development. Then they captured it, now they use it to push their high margin products

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