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.
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that’s why google has an internal memo to never use AGPL code.
A lot of the tech people who are the types to aspire to work at a FAANG think AGPL is stupid because companies never want to use it so it’s pointless to license code that way if you actually want it to be used. I think that’s the mentality for people who keep code portfolios to get hired, instead of the type of open-source contributer who is passionate about FOSS and works as a bus driver or something.
