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What does “EEE” mean in this context? End to end?
by Qub3d 4y ago
What does “EEE” mean in this context? End to end?
- zdragnar 4y agoEmbrace, Extend, Extinguish - the Microsoft strategy (per their internal documents) towards anything it didn't control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin... Adopt an open standard, add proprietary bits so that content worked best (or exclusively) on their own version, and force other players and competitors out.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agocoughGITHUBcough I'm terribly sorry, I could not resist.
- aliswe 4y agoeg Inter-repo forks existed prior to the acquisition though.
- hoseja 4y ago
- neilv 4y agoIMHO, the saddest part is that people keep falling for it, and/or knowingly selling out others to it.
- conductr 4y agoAnd then expecting the guillotine as “justice”, it’s a downward spiral. But this is just business. Leaders make miscalculations all the time. In this case, Zuck’s business problem is replacing the growth story of a maturing product that is the Facebook app and really making social media an entire industry. Meta and VR is a potential new industry. The only thing that will replace the SM growth is creating/owning an industry again. He liked the VR world because he could own it for a while. It would be more difficult to disrupt than what keeps happening with SM. TikTok is the latest rival but there have been many. And there’s now as ad revenue pressures. It’s a recipe for a massive layoff. Since it’s a business, that is the most appropriate action. I don’t think anyone expected how difficult and expensive it would be. I assume the layoffs will slow this down further and it’s effectively a loss or a solution without a problem.
- zdragnar 4y ago> I don’t think anyone expected how difficult and expensive it would be I agree with the rest of your post, but this might be more of an "anyone inside of Meta" scenario. There's plenty of skeptics around short-term VR (myself included). Getting a non-technical audience into it is going to require a set of massive technological innovations, imho, both in software and hardware. Even then, having your vision be completely blocked to the outside world is not something casual users are going to enjoy for any extended amount of time or frequency. If I'm writing a post and my kid or dog or friend needs my attention, I can set the phone down for a second. If I'm in VR, the best I can hope for is a button that makes the screen transparent so that my eyes can see (and be seen!) again short of reaching up to my face, taking my head gear off, then putting it back on. Even then, the immersion is completely broken.
- hoseja 4y agoI meant the willful malicious destruction of FOSS commons that is EEE.
- sirsinsalot 4y agoSee: WSL
- 4ggr0 4y agoWhat's the EEE-strategy behind WSL?
- incomplete 4y agoyeah, i'm curious about this too. i've spoken to many high level folks in MSR (microsoft research) and they're all massive proponents of open-source software and unix and are as excited as i am about being able to open a 'native-ish' *nix terminal and do work. in fact, i've got my win10 box set up for dev, and it's nearly identical to my mac! it wasn't 100% straightforward, and to get windowed emacs working from the cli took a little twiddling, but overall in less than a few hours i had everything running flawlessly. :)
- zdragnar 4y agoThe challenge Microsoft faces now is that "embrace" is actually a great thing, but now some people will always assume an ulterior motive.