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Sadly, this response by Microsoft doesn’t address anything. It reads more like an acknowledgment that what Keivan wrote was indeed the truth. It’s very much the type of non-apology that you’d see from politicians.

At the very least, I would expect a post mortem style explanation about what led to Keivan being ghosted and how they plan to not repeat the same thing from occurring. This isn’t the normal candidate interview pipeline after all.

It does give me an ambivalent feeling I'd like a word for:

It's when someone/something you consider evil commits another wrong and it comes to light. You hate to see it happen and feel for the victims, but as a result more people also come to distrust them. I guess it's similar to "I told you so", but not smug and with less conclusion.

I won't give Microsoft a single chance until they let you make a local account on W10 without walking out of the range of the wifi you accidentally taught it the password to. It really needs to be opt-in, but I'd settle for the opt-out being plainly accessible.

(On a tangential note Apple needs to stop nagging to enable Siri if it hasn't already. Not anywhere near as bad but still dumb.)

/rant

I do feel that they really didn't need to fuck this up so badly. Just apologize properly and give the man some big fat credit, maybe with a notice in the CLI. Only developers use this, they'd love to see Microsoft properly attributing the idea.

I'm going to migrate my github accounts this first week of June as a small protest.

1. We acknoledge that what Keivan wrote ist true, but we will not take any responsibility for our own actions

2. We publish Winget on GitHub, so Keivan can devote his free and unpaid time to help us make it better lolz

3. We don't fail to link to Winget, but when we try to acknoledge Keivan's efforts and AppGet which massively inspired Winget, we can't even put a single link to his blog or github repo.

Why bother even write this blog post in the first place? What was this supposed to do?

Microsoft wanted to work together with the creator of AppGet - It did not work out. Microsoft releases WinGet as Open Source (MIT), AppGet creator ends his project.

Of course it would have been cooler if they would have just forked the project, or became maintainers of AppGet - but that did not work out - so they created their own. People did not get together and voila now we have two different linux variants.

Isn't this the normal lifecycle of OpenSource? Many variants of the same thing competing with eachother?

If I create my own linux variant and somebody else releases a similar linux with the same features, (but has more funding and capacity to continue maintenance) there is no point in me continuing support for my personal linux variant?

Isn't this just a variant of the core problem of open source how projects get their funding /compensation?