alt Hacker NewsLittle harder to pull that off when the key components are all GPL licensed, but also all of Microsoft's bits and pieces for their distro seem to be MIT Licensed. Honestly, it certainly feels more like Google lives by Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (email, browsers, video streaming, etc).
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nullpoint420 • today at 4:14 AM
Agreed on the Google front here.
greenavocado • today at 4:14 AM
That's why they're pushing hardware attestation so aggressively
You cited three of the most prominent counterexamples to the common meme about Google killing their products as evidence of them extinguishing things. I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, but I don't think you've demonstrated what you think you have.