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DiabloD3today at 3:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Its the same way "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was coined. "Embrace and extend", without extinguish/exterminate, was used in Microsoft corp docs that were handed to the DOJ during the famous antitrust case, but it was the DOJ that turned it into EEE after realizing what "embrace and extend" actually meant in the broader context of Microsoft's machinations.

The DOJ's clever hook won them the case.


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hliyantoday at 4:02 PM

Not unlike "delay, deny, defend".

hn_throwaway_99today at 3:51 PM

> The DOJ's clever hook won them the case.

Or, rather, the fact that Microsoft was blatantly illegally abusing their monopoly position to kill competitors.

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