‘We appreciated your input and insights’Updated Keivan Beigi, developer of AppGet, has described how Microsoft nearly hired him to work on the open-source Windows package manager as an official feature, then went quiet for six months before announcing WinGet, which Beigi says is “very inspired by AppGet”.…

Source: LXer – Embrace and kill: AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job — then released remarkably similar package manager