I have a question for fediverse heads. Threads is federating with a bunch of the fediverse, but a lot more are "oh noes, EEE!!!!!!!?!" and actively blocking it. Which seems counterproductive, and quite a bit scaremongery.

Does anyone have an actual instance where Embrace Extend Extinguish actually worked? I mean, sun sued MS for it over Java and as far as I can tell Java is still doing fine. They wanted to EEE Linux too, back on the day. Again, seems to be doing fine....

@cpw GNU did a successful EEE on Unix (from what I heard, people were installing gnu coteutils and gcc on AIX and HP-UX because some things they needed relied on GNU extensions) but that's a a tricke example: it's non-standard free software EEE-ing open-standard proprietary software.