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		jchook on Nov 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Growl in Retirement Reminds me of the story of a guy who gets flown out to meet with Microsoft about an acquisition for his extremely useful Windows program, but they never follow up. Instead, they just rip-off his idea verbatim and integrate it into the OS.

vitosartori on Nov 29, 2020 [–]

Just linking to the original story of appget vs winget: https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

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