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.

  • neo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Like if Microsoft wanted to use some open source library licensed under MIT or something, then all they’d need to do is provide a link to the original source and they could keep all their changes private.

    What you described is beyond the requirements of the MIT license. They simply must include the copyright provision as attribution. That's it.