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.
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.