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Embrace, Extend, Engulf?

I'm not sure what you call it when Amazon can pretty much just take your project over when you piss them off.

Mongo is getting EEE'ed.

Imo mongo tried to change the rules of the game to be in their favor and AWS reacted in their best long term interests. And whether or not you like it that's fair, AWS were not in breach of the original software contract.

Microsoft were never in breach of anything legally. If they'd have had their way we'd still be on IE6.

Agreed that something being legal doesn't make it right, but some of Microsoft's behaviour was illegally monopolistic.

Oh well, if it's legal I guess it's ok. Why debate or discuss anything? The case is closed everybody, it's legal!

Heavens forbid morals should enter into the discussion. All laws are perfectly rational and sensible and none of them have ever been put into place at the behest of major corporations with a lot of money to throw into buying politicians.

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