Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish

A critique of Microsoft and GitHub's strategy to undermine open, distributed git collaboration workflows. The author argues GitHub's pull request model deliberately replaced decentralized email-based git workflows with proprietary systems, and that a Microsoft employee's push to abandon email-based Linux kernel development is the 'extinguish' phase of the classic Embrace, Extend, Extinguish playbook. The author contrasts this with sourcehut's approach of improving email-based workflows while preserving open protocols.