Your argument amounts to: "Before X happened, and after X had stopped happening, X wasn't happening".

Logically it's very strong. It's also neither here, nor there.

The "extinguish" part refers to the transition from Linux on mobile being a thing thanks to Android (on billions of devices) to Linux on mobile not being a thing anymore (or being a small niche) in a post-Android/Fucscia world.

It doesn't matter if Linux on mobile wasn't a thing before Android, the same way when defending a murder "Well, the victim wasn't alive before it was born either, judge" is not an argument.

That is not at all what "embrace, extend, extinguish" refers to.

What you are describing is what happens when an inferior technology is replaced by a better one.

>That is not at all what "embrace, extend, extinguish" refers to.

I'll agree with that.

It still is "use X when convenient, profit off X, build your own replacement piecemeal, throw X away and let it die" though.

> It still is "use X when convenient, profit off X, build your own replacement piecemeal, throw X away and let it die" though.

Pretty sure doing that falls under the essential software freedoms, though, doesn't it.

Doesn't EEE also fall under the essential software freedoms?