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Old 08-11-2023, 11:21 PM   #137 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
I was talking to my son, and was amazed that he is oblivious to the Micro$oft strategy of 'embrace, extend extinguish' that [quite literally] decimated computer companies in the 1990s. I mean, he lived through that.

Now here is gOOgle doing the same thing with HTML; add a layer to the TCP/IP stack without adding a layer.
I used to believe the "free software" folks would force the predatory competition from Microsoft (and now from Google too) to at least slow down a little. Seems like I was wrong...
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