Recently, at the Microsoft Build 2020 Global Developers Conference, Microsoft released a new product, Windows Package Manager (winget)-Windows Package Manager. But shortly after the conference ended, an open source author’s complaint against Microsoft spread on the Internet, which can also be said to be about the process of being “fudged” by himself.
The story is as follows:
On May 20th, Beijing time, at the Build 2020 Global Developers Conference, Microsoft released a new Windows Package Manager (winget)-Windows Package Manager.
For example, you can launch the Windows Package Manager and run the new "winget" command to get the latest version of any application you want to install.
You just need to run
winget install PowerToys
You can install it without visiting Github, third-party websites or Microsoft Store.
According to migrant workers, AppGet is an open source project released by Keivan Beigi in 2018. It can install and update software in Windows, including more than 1,400 software packages.
GitHub address: https://github.com/appget
The matter between Keivan Beigi and Microsoft is roughly like this:
Microsoft's team discovered the author's open source project AppGet in July 2019, and Microsoft also sent an email expressing its hope to communicate with the author and discuss the planning and development of this source project.
In August 2019, the author received an email from Microsoft again, saying that he hoped that the author would join Microsoft to develop this AppGet project together.
Later, due to some concerns of the author (worrying that the focus of joining Microsoft is not on this open source project), he came and went with Microsoft Mail for half a year, and then he has not received any relevant emails about his joining Microsoft.
Just before the conference opened, the author suddenly received an email, stating that Microsoft is also developing a package manager with the same function as AppGet, and hoped that the author would give suggestions.
In this way, at the Build 2020 conference the next day, Microsoft released its own package manager WinGet. Keivan Beigi found that most of WinGet's ideas are highly similar to AppGet. Keivan Beigi believes that Microsoft has plagiarized its own project.
Keivan Beigi also said that the original development of this project was not to make a fortune, but now that the work is plagiarized, it is really helpless. But no matter how hard they tried, they were still no match for the speed of development and promotion of big companies like Microsoft. Therefore, they had to terminate the maintenance of this open source project.
What a pity, the two-year open source project was forced to terminate the maintenance! ! !
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