That's not how "embrace, extend, extinguish" works. That practice is in the context of standards, and not products. Microsoft was perfectly in its right to buil

That's not how "embrace, extend, extinguish" works. That practice is in the context of standards, and not products. Microsoft was perfectly in its right to build a package manager. They based it on an open-source version that allowed copying and forking. So no issue there either. They did string the developer along, but I'm not sure it was anything nefarious. I think the people at MS who were looking to acquihire Keivan ran into roadblocks at MS from higher-ups for whatever reason and it just fell apart. It probably wasn't a nefarious strategy to string Keivan along in order to boost their WinGet announcement - but just general inconsideration and rudeness in not communicating.