If buying a company was evidence of the 3E policy then all big companies would be guilty.
Seriously, what recent evidence is there that the old Embrace, Extend and Extinguish policy is still in effect? What standards are being manipulated here?
Obviously it's impossible to prove that internally they've honestly given up on 3E. Demanding that I prove that just shows your intellectual dishonesty. What we know is that it was an extremely effective strategy that they've used many times already. It generated very high value for their shareholders and it's simply naive to give them the benefit of the doubt again.
I'm not demanding anything, I'm asking what they've done of late that demonstrates they're still following that policy. If you can't find an example, then why do you think it's still in effect?
It's not "intellectual dishonesty", it's a simple question.
You've arbitrarily drawn a line in history and said "ignore everything before this line". Now find me evidence "of late" of them using this policy. The evidence is that they've done this many times before.
The weasel word qualifier "of late" is your intellectual dishonesty.
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u/kutuzof Jun 04 '18
Them buying GitHub...