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“Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” — Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer> Just the same, over the last few years, Microsoft has invested heavily in obtaining control over key portions of the Linux (and, to some degree, open source) ecosystem.
This seems incredibly disingenuous.
The article is implying there's a smooth continuity between these two sentences, and basically pretending Satya Nadella doesn't exist.
This is like saying "For years, Microsoft has completely ignored accessibility in video games. And now they're investing in the adaptive controller and forcing developers to implement accessibility features? Why? Why are trying to control accessibility?" without mentioning Phil Spencer.
> Well. If we’re simply being practical and objective… Microsoft seems to have achieved the “Embrace” and “Extend” portion of the old “Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.” business plan.
How? How have they done that? Leaving aside that Microsoft hasn't done EEE in a while, the article doesn't mention anything that could count as the "Extend" part of EEE. They haven't released an extended version of Linux with Microsoft-exclusive features, they haven't created special Github plans that only work if you're using Microsoft Office, they haven't released a special version of Git that only works with Visual Studio or VsCode, etc.
There's reasonable distrust, which Microsoft certainly has earned, and then there's paranoia.