The Day AppGet Died (2020)
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Corrected, thanks
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#5Don’t ever forget that at its core Microsoft is still the same company we grew up with. Just because they’re singing sweet songs now doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally different.
I know that there are a lot of developers on here that disagree with me and are all in on the ‘new’ Microsoft. I can’t change your mind. Ive watched Microsoft since the early 90s though and they’ve never really changed—-and buying GitHub and releasing some things as open source doesn’t change things a bit.
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#6I say the following not knowing anything about appget internals.
I hope I could find proper words to express the sour feelings when there's not enough credit given. It's always easy to dismiss something as: "gee, thats the obvious way to do it, there's nothing unique about it". Novel ideas always turn out to be obvious once they are implemented. The foundations of knowledge are based on the same principle. Standing on the shoulders of giants. The contrary, not giving credit, is just the nasty opposite. Appearing taller, by standing on your shoulders.
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#7I've read this several times before, and every time I do it hurts just as much.
Every time I read of another person who built something useful, so much so that it gets recognised by big-corp X, and being called in by Google or Microsoft, promised the recognition (and pay) they deserve, then having the rug pulled at light-speed from under them, I take it personally.
I'm amazed, every time I read "The Day AppGet Died" at the restraint shown, which makes it hurt that little bit more.
Keivan should probably be a (multi) millionaire now, sitting comfortably with his family doing whatever it is they enjoy doing. Instead, someone at Microsoft used this as a way to get themselves a promotion.
Don't be fooled by the lipstick, Microsoft has never stopped being EEEvil.
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#8https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=keivan.io
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1930 points by lostmsu on May 27, 2020 | past | 535 comments
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#9What open source license did AppGet use?
Seemed to me we need some carefully worded clause that help provide some compensation if something like this happens.
But M$ should be ashamed of themselves for not at least offering some compensation.
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#10Don’t ever forget that at its core Microsoft is still the same company we grew up with. Just because they’re singing sweet songs now doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally different. I know that there are a lot of developers on here that disagree with me and are all in on the ‘new’ Microsoft. I can’t change your mind. Ive watched Microsoft since the early 90s though and they’ve never really changed—-and buying GitHub and…
Just because they’re singing sweet songs now doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally different.
Frankly I think it's only because Google, Facebook, et al. invented new kinds of evil too fast for Microsoft to keep up that they seemed warm and fuzzy at all. They're still the company that force-upgraded users to Windows 10, and they're still the company that's requiring you to have a Microsoft account for future versions of Windows 11.