[Irtalk] Embrace, extend and extinguish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Hilton Gibson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

About the Elsevier Mendeley takeover.
This tactic, perfected by Microsoft, is the biggest barrier to true open
access, using open standards and open systems. This tactic severely limits
inter-operability between disparate systems and harms digital curation in
the long term.

See graphic attached.
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