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Wow, I didn't know Microsoft was that shady. The original story was bad enoguh, but this makes it even worse. So they took the time to get ideas out of him and do the exact same thing he did, when a CS 102 guy could do the same thing when YAML files and exec... wow. I have no other words.

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> So they took the time to get ideas out of him and do the exact same thing he did

No. Both package managers are open-source and share no code. They aren't even written in the same language. [0] [1]

It seems the author of AppGet wanted to sell it to Microsoft and Microsoft didn't see anything worth to acquire. He never even spoke to the people who could make the purchasing decision. Then they gave him a regular PM interview and it seems he failed it.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

[1] https://github.com/appget/appget

We had the shady Microsoft topic just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794352

I can only repeat myself: Microsoft is Microsoft, whatever they do.

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