One of the companies I worked for had a codified tactic of expressing interest in hiring people who worked for our competitors, then using the meetings and interview process to essentially extract...
One of the companies I worked for had a codified tactic of expressing interest in hiring people who worked for our competitors, then using the meetings and interview process to essentially extract as much information about what the competitors were currently working on, stretching it out as long as possible to maximize the amount of intel gathered (with no intention of actually hiring the person).
That's probably not exactly what was going on here (AppGet was already open source so there weren't really any trade secrets to discover), but the whole thing seems a little fishy. Maybe someone at MS really did think there would be value in acquiring or hiring Keivan, but it got squashed at a higher level by someone who figured why pay him when they can just "borrow" his open source code at no cost.
Here is the thread. But I don't get why this project owner had to stop appget just because Microsoft also launched a competing product? As folks mentioned in that thread, chances are that MS...
Here is the thread. But I don't get why this project owner had to stop appget just because Microsoft also launched a competing product? As folks mentioned in that thread, chances are that MS product will eventually suck and people will continue using this open source project.
This is what happened with Apple platform's homebrew package manager. Apple has their own version but many folks still prefer the open source homebrew.
I think Chocolatey is still the better software. For a very long time winget doesn't support installing software from zip (like just extract and run) which make OpenRGB not installable. I demo-ed...
I think Chocolatey is still the better software. For a very long time winget doesn't support installing software from zip (like just extract and run) which make OpenRGB not installable. I demo-ed winget to my IT team this year and it didn't work for some reason. Software updates doesn't work sometimes (sometimes the upgrade end up being uninstall-install, but winget think the uninstallation failed leaving me with no software). I don't think I ever have problems with Chocolatey.
At least one advantage of Windows platform (compared to Ubuntu, etc.) is mind blowing backwards compatibility. A Visual Basic 6.0 app I wrote in 1999 still runs as is on Windows 11! Consequently,...
At least one advantage of Windows platform (compared to Ubuntu, etc.) is mind blowing backwards compatibility. A Visual Basic 6.0 app I wrote in 1999 still runs as is on Windows 11! Consequently, for a power user, it's a matter of having one time setups for popular software like 7Zip, Notepad++, etc. and track them with their hashes, etc. This effectively removes the need for a package manager at all.
Hey old friend, is that you 1996? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
In $CURRENT_YEAR, that old friend is always hanging around.
I think this should be called Sherlocked
One of the companies I worked for had a codified tactic of expressing interest in hiring people who worked for our competitors, then using the meetings and interview process to essentially extract as much information about what the competitors were currently working on, stretching it out as long as possible to maximize the amount of intel gathered (with no intention of actually hiring the person).
That's probably not exactly what was going on here (AppGet was already open source so there weren't really any trade secrets to discover), but the whole thing seems a little fishy. Maybe someone at MS really did think there would be value in acquiring or hiring Keivan, but it got squashed at a higher level by someone who figured why pay him when they can just "borrow" his open source code at no cost.
Here is the thread. But I don't get why this project owner had to stop appget just because Microsoft also launched a competing product? As folks mentioned in that thread, chances are that MS product will eventually suck and people will continue using this open source project.
This is what happened with Apple platform's homebrew package manager. Apple has their own version but many folks still prefer the open source homebrew.
I think Chocolatey is still the better software. For a very long time winget doesn't support installing software from zip (like just extract and run) which make OpenRGB not installable. I demo-ed winget to my IT team this year and it didn't work for some reason. Software updates doesn't work sometimes (sometimes the upgrade end up being uninstall-install, but winget think the uninstallation failed leaving me with no software). I don't think I ever have problems with Chocolatey.
At least one advantage of Windows platform (compared to Ubuntu, etc.) is mind blowing backwards compatibility. A Visual Basic 6.0 app I wrote in 1999 still runs as is on Windows 11! Consequently, for a power user, it's a matter of having one time setups for popular software like 7Zip, Notepad++, etc. and track them with their hashes, etc. This effectively removes the need for a package manager at all.