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How does AppGet compete with apt-get?
I thought AppGet was a pun on apt-get and thought the name was clever. I thought it was better named than Chocolatey or Scoop. Edit: plan > pun. (no idea why I wrote plan, i think I wanted to write play)
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That's more recent. A long time ago (and I'm working from memory, so best to fact check anything I say, because my memory is terrible) it was common to use a particular rat poison in dry milk (and I forget exactly what it was). There were certain standards as to how much rat poison you were allowed to have. It was well known that this would kill a small percentage of babies, but it was thought to be a reasonable trad…
What's the point of even adding rat poison in baby formula? What does that accomplish?
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Not to me, but to some people, definitely. I was about to hire a guy and discussing him with the president, it came up that he was into ASICs for crypto mining (years before it was a big thing)... president didn’t like it, figured the guy to be a get rich quick type and through his direction we passed over hiring him. Turns out in this case, it was a good call, but right or wrong it was enough to push the guy back in…
You passed up a guy that had an interest outside your business and that was extremely technical? I can understand the justifications for culture fit, however, to me it sounds like you passed over someone because he was ambitious outside of work. That's fine if that's your culture, but you should consider that as a red flag.
Many see that as a sign that they won't be 100% focused on the task at hand.
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> "apt-get" is the classic tool for Windows Subsystem for Linux APT is the classic tool for debian-like Linux distributions. FTFY
Get used to it, this is going to be the bulk of the "Linux" users from now on. Edit: Imo not a bad thing, it's just how it is. A lot of people will learn (of) Linux through WSL. Linux as a runtime.
I know this might be unpopular with OSS idealists, but I wonder if it might be time for a new license, or indeed if there are already (small 'o') open source licenses that would help with this sort of things. What I'm thinking of is a license almost identical to the MIT and/or Apache 2.0 license, but with a clause that prohibits mega-corps from wholesale rebranding and using your code. I have a few OSS projects mysel…
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To get your article pre-written and ready to publish the moment embargo lifts. As opposed to the other tech bloggers who will have a scramble to write it after hearing about it with the rest of the world
thanks, that explains it. seems trivial though, but I'm not a tech blogger.
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Ah yes. The new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft. I am really sorry this happened to you. On the scale of Microsoft, or even on the scale of what they're putting into this effort, it would have cost approximately nothing to give you an "acquisition" you would have been happy with. If the job didn't work out, they could have given you a fat consulting contract for a year or two. Or they just could have written you…
>Ah yes. The new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft. I wouldn't say that. It's a big company thing.
1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/micro...
2. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262103/microsoft-open-s...
Author here, Because it's sure to come up here is a comment I wrote on Reddit that clarifies somethings, I haven't updated the original article since I'm not sure what the etiquette for updating a highly shared article is. ------ Code being copied isn't an issue. I knew full well what it meant to release something opensource and I don't regret it one bit. What was copied with no credit is the foundation of the projec…
Calling it "WinGet" was the real punch in the gut. Does Microsoft select for assholes or something? There's a thousand other package manager names [1] in the wild and they chose that one. So much for "developers, developers, developers"... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...
There are parts of Microsoft that understand open source. Most parts of the Windows team ain’t that (exceptions apply). Reading this saddens me a lot as he clearly got screwed. But this is why any project with momentum should consider growing its community and maybe forming a foundation. For example, Homebrew and its community/infrastructure is better than and bigger than anything Apple could ever do (and we know how…
Nobody at Microsoft understands open source. The people who pretend to understand are just glorified sales people pretending to be developers promoting every new Microsoft product regardless how shit it is or how much better other competing products are (you know who these sales people are). Microsoft loves OSS as much as they are able to control it. They are like an abusive partner who "love you" for as long as they…
Seriously? extreme statement even before first dot?