> Did you read the Wikipedia article on EEE?
I did that when I was still in middle school, mate. And then I did it again
several times, because I was obsessed with hating Microsoft at the time and
took every opportunity that I could to make "Microsoft sucks" presentations
for school assignments. EEE is not some new thing, it started (IIRC) with
Internet Explorer back in the late 1990s.
> Correct, but they have not all been sued for anti-trust!
So? Stifling competition is far from the only evil thing corporations do. And
the motive is always clear: money.
Please remember that corporations are not people, despite what the government
says. They all have exactly the same personality: psychopathic and amoral.
Everything they do is to make more money, end of story.
> It is not paranoid if history justifies the concern.
But history does not justify the concern. Microsoft isn't some machine that
is designed to use "embrace and extend" anywhere it can. It's a machine that
is designed to make as much money as it can. And as I've already pointed out,
there isn't even a realistic mechanism by which "embrace and extend" can be
planned for this, except by doing an absurdly roundabout version of just
putting permissive software directly into Windows.
No one has even explained what exactly they expect Microsoft to "extend". The
only logic is, "Well, they're embracing, and that's the first part of EEE!
Obviously, they must be using EEE! There's no other possible reason they
could be embracing something other than EEE, because they're Microsoft and
Microsoft has done EEE before!"
> MS has been developing software for forty years without making a GNU/Linux
distro an appendage. Despite the fact that for most of that time, many of the
most useful utilities were available. Why is easier access to these tools so
critical all of a sudden?
I didn't get the impression that they are "critical", and I don't see why
they need to be. They just need to be useful enough for this project to be
worthwhile.
> It isn't paranoia to ask that, it is common sense.
Conspiracy theorists like to point at things that look strange to them. They
say these strange things raise questions. But they never actually go and find
the answers. Instead, they just make up answers based on their preconceptions
of how evil corporations or the government is. This is what I'm seeing here,
from several people.
