Article goes over the embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy that Microsoft and Google have used against open document and chat formats. There is speculation that Meta could do something similar by joining the Fediverse.
:jefferson jacksonsorryigetthesecrackersmixedup: “Now let them enforce it.”
EDIT: reading the wiki link to “embrace extend extinguish”, it seems like Microsoft and other such companies basically just hid the additional developments they were making until it was too late.
The linked article also makes it sound like they would purposely gum up the implementation of the open source standard which would slow down its development as to iron out the issues with the big players’ implementations. Which dovetails, slow down the open source standards development, then release your own with the bells and whistles that the open source standard couldn’t get around to implementing because it was too busy cleaning up your messes.
