> So they took the time to get ideas out of him and do the exact same thing he did No. Both package managers are open-source and share no code. They aren't eve

> So they took the time to get ideas out of him and do the exact same thing he did No. Both package managers are open-source and share no code. They aren't even written in the same language. [0] [1] It seems the author of AppGet wanted to sell it to Microsoft and Microsoft didn't see anything worth to acquire. He never even spoke to the people who could make the purchasing decision. Then they gave him a regular PM interview and it seems he failed it. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli [1] https://github.com/appget/appget https://github.com/appget/appget