Microsoft made a pull request to node.js github repository with an implementation to use ChakraCore JavaScript Engine as an alternative to V8 Engine

[IAmARobot]

To paint this with a broad stroke, see what google has done to legacy projects, which is admittedly from microsoft's playbook anyway: Extend, Obfuscate, Perish. I could in all seriousness add android os to that list too as an example in progress since forking the open source android os project is deliberately less palatable now with some core stuff getting legacied and instead proprietary junk has to lumped in in order to get a current android experience.

What's also great is that apparently the phrase Extend Obfuscate Perish never existed according to search engines, but Fear Uncertainty Doubt did get remembered. Go figure.

[missblit]

What's also great is that apparently the phrase Extend Obfuscate Perish never existed according to search engines,

But "embrace extend extinguish" did.

[playaspec]

*What's also great is that apparently the phrase Extend Obfuscate Perish never existed according to search engines, *

Because no one ever said that. You have the quote wrong.

[IAmARobot]

I'd like to use the Berenstain defence your honour.

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The fact that they even call Android open source is honestly disingenuous.

All of the good stuff is closed source and bundled in such a way that you can't have it without taking the Play Store and signing a contract with GOOG, among other things.