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Note that Microsoft currently sponsors the author of AppGet on GitHub.

(that began some time between 2021-04-16 and 2021-05-19 according to archive.org)

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210416144938/https://github.co...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210519125607/https://github.co...

Prince Andrew has also just paid his victims cough a person he has never met.

There's a potential interpretation of Microsoft's sponsorship as "a financial gesture to minimize a problem", sure. Without knowing more about the story, though (and there's no requirement for the author or Microsoft to share more details), perhaps we won't really know.

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