>>>>Microsoft engaged in some strange behaviour with regard to its WinGet project, finding out all the details of an existing open-source project called AppGet

>>>>Microsoft engaged in some strange behaviour with regard to its WinGet project, finding out all the details of an existing open-source project called AppGet by dangling the prospect of a job at Microsoft for its creator, but then in effect killing that open-source project though borrowing many of its ideas. Littles was more than disappointed.<<<< This is a misunderstanding of what open source means. I has zero to do with community. You may think that, but that doesn't make it true. Open source is only about license. It means you, as the copyright owner, give permission for others to use the software royalty free, and you can modify the software as you wish. With permissive license, you don't even have to give us the changes you made. But you do need need to keep the original copyright. THAT'S ALL IT HAS EVER MEANT. Now, a lot of open-source is created in a community. But this things about how so-and-so took the source-code and ideas from another projects and reused it, whether that act is done by the big guy or the small guy, or the project you took from ends up getting killed, that's just too bad. Don't join the game and then complain about the rules later.