alt Hacker Newsits been 20 years, their strategy now is to incorporate open source into their product offering
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nemo136 • yesterday at 8:10 AM
Yeah, and block as much as possible the possibility to include their cash cow (office) in open source: the desktop Microsoft Office apps are impossible to run under Linux without a VM, and the web versions are a PITA and lack many necessary features.
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That strategy is over 20 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...