I've come to the realization that Microsoft's strategy of Embrace Extend Extinguish is literally a 1-for-1 textbook implementation of the process of recuperation, specifically it's a recuperation of the radical FOSS counterculture. I'm suspecting that some Microsoft executive read Marxist theory as a guide on how to do a better capitalism.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Fair enough, I didn't want to call them anarchists while criticizing them, to avoid being sectarian.

    • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I see. To be clear, I was criticizing their original mistake in the method (which of course the movement admits), not at all the goal (being in efrect the decommodization of software) which in 100% in favour of.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Cool, I agree wholeheartedly, intellectual property rights in general kill people on a daily basis, and technocapital literally can't function without having a general repository of freeuse software.