Windows Package Manager 1.1

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Medium

> Not sure why you’re being downvoted I have no clue. It also seems to trip some throttling in HN's code. I have unapproved opinions I suppose? Maybe dang knows the reason. > He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible. The funniest thing are his grandiose claims that he "could definitely have obtained a patent" for his package manager. Despite NuGet being 10+ years old and the fact that earlier in the article he explicitly states that he wrote AppGet so that he could replicate the Linux experience on Windows [0]... That gives the reader an interesting insight on why he might have failed his interview. [0] https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22.

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AppGet

It has been admitted. This is what an 'extinguish' looks like after embracing the idea of a Windows package manager by interviewing the creator of AppGet [0][1] and then dumping him to skip the extend part to full on copy it [2] with no credit and bundling it in the OS. This is a rare straight extinguish after an embrace, especially in open source. [0] https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/ [1] https://appget.net/ [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget-windows-package-manager-appget-copied.

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