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There’s a story we all should remember about what can happen when a corporate monolith decides to co-opt a decentralized open network.

It’s the story of first Compuserve, then AOL, then Microsoft trying to absorb the World Wide Web.

Remember: Microsoft originally launched MSN as a •competitor• to the Internet. Then they tried to embrace and extend it.

TL;DR: The Internet ate them all