Article goes over the embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy that Microsoft and Google have used against open document and chat formats. There is speculation that Meta could do something similar by joining the Fediverse.
Article goes over the embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy that Microsoft and Google have used against open document and chat formats. There is speculation that Meta could do something similar by joining the Fediverse.
It's weird that this strategy is well documented (like the phrase literally originates from the 2001 antitrust suit against M$), but techbros and hackernewses still think that open standards can be trusted in the hands of megacorps.