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Story: Microsoft And Linux — A Song Of Mice And IreTotal Replies: 8
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Richard

Sep 18, 2016
3:20 PM EDT 		"Embrace and extend" is their founder's philosophy. I don't believe it has changed.
gus3

Sep 18, 2016
6:31 PM EDT 		Don't forget "extinguish."
penguinist

Sep 18, 2016
6:55 PM EDT 		Once upon a time there was a lion and a lamb. For years the lion had been feasting on lambs and knew that they made a tasty treat.

But now the lion says that he loves the lamb and asks the lamb to dance. Could it be that the lion has changed and now just wants to be friends.

What should the lamb do?
dotmatrix

Sep 18, 2016
9:08 PM EDT 		>What should the lamb do?

Lions will be lions. Is it more ethical to cheer the lamb not eaten or the lion not starved?

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However, Microsoft is neither lion nor lamb... Microsoft is more like the 'Nothing' in the Neverending Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG-lsrXKRM

...

Microsoft want to set the boundaries and kill the hopes and dreams of those who wish to live free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEZmMeH96Q
mbaehrlxer

Sep 19, 2016
6:19 AM EDT 		you all need to go see zootopia. the lion can become an actuary, and the lamb an astronaut.

greetings, eMBee.
flufferbeer

Sep 19, 2016
11:18 AM EDT 		@penguinist,

> Once upon a time there was a lion and a lamb. ...

Seems to me that there already are VERY APPROPRIATE English-language sayings having animals repesenting M$'s "relationship" with Linux. For M$'s "Embrace" of Linux, we have A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing. For M$'s perpetual attempts to Extend and eventuallly Extinguish Linux, we have A Leopard Doesn't Change Its Spots.

2c
seatex

Sep 19, 2016
11:28 AM EDT 		MS has every STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) known, but still wants to sleep with you.

How's that for a different analogy?
gus3

Sep 19, 2016
1:55 PM EDT 		Or, the first one is free (it comes with the system), but that's how you get hooked.
jdixon

Sep 19, 2016
8:29 PM EDT 		> you all need to go see zootopia.

http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/04/04/0774-a-strip-for-peac...

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