Sports Caster 1: And the gold medal in calling the police on black people goes to... Karen!

Embrace Extend Extinguish is a strategy used to dominate a market. What kind of brain-dead strategy involves your own product failing? The Exterminate phase refers to exterminating the competition, not exterminating yourself.

Sorry, but you’re wrong. Microsoft coined the term EEE in the early 90s, they decided what it meant and the DOJ investigation exposed that meaning as extinguishing the competition. You’re applying your own interpretation to the word, not the selected meaning in this context.

I won’t disagree with that, but as others have stated, that was never what Embrace/Extend/Extinguish has meant. It was always a description of Microsoft moving in to dominate a sector, like the way they muscled out Netscape (for example).

I don’t think you’re following. You opened saying Microsoft has a history of EEE (which they do), but what you’re describing has nothing to do with EEE. You’ve misunderstood what ‘extinguish’ means. Killing their own products is not EEE. Killing competitors is.

Nobody said otherwise, but that’s not what “Extinguish” refers to in that phrase.

He’s right though, the ‘extinguish’ in EEE is extinguishing the competition, not extinguishing their own product. It’s not overthinking, they’re just completely different things.

1. ✔️ Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.

Yeah, “out of the blue”, lol.

I’m going to guess it’s some variation on “being a really shitty person.”

Here’s the thing though, with “master/slave”, in software at least, it isn’t even the best phrase/concept to use. “main/worker” is typically how I see threads divided, or “primary/secondary”.
Even with those examples though, some secondary/worker threads need to be unique, so they get labeled with their task, like…

Straw man, hello.

Sounds like, in your case, probably.

Naw, this is Phase 1A after the hissy fit the unions threw about being called thugs was roundly laughed at. We’re going to see the Sick Outs and Non-response To Calls that I think the NYPD(?) threatened around the time of Ferguson. The union has to do something to get white America back on its team!

“... the same rednecks you bitch about are the very ones that would be lined up against military action against citizens.”

[..] also blocking streets is false imprisonment.

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength”

“You are comparing the Chinese crackdown on protesters to what is happening now?”

Good lord you have no idea how many times I have thought this to myself.

I've never understood why jumper cables don't come with dead simple instructions right by each handle, labeled with big numbers 1-2-3-4 and where to connect it.