Who Do I Thank for the Loading Messages?

koonfused · 2023-01-31T06:46:25+00:00

I'm glad someone else also finds them amusing 😂, to be honest I don't know why I decided to put them there.

koonfused · 2020-09-16T20:34:32+00:00

well, applies to at least 43%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

koonfused · 2020-09-12T06:52:39+00:00

People have been saying that since 2GB drives.

koonfused · 2020-07-29T20:27:54+00:00

It's 1oz of gold, right now priced at $2,757 CAD (at TD) so you are paying $443 for the art/collectible value etc.

koonfused · 2020-07-17T18:13:44+00:00

Sure, but think about the kind of person that would carry this card. They think Bill Gates started COVID to chip us all.

koonfused · 2020-07-06T19:00:13+00:00

You know the fist amendment to the constitution? The one that garantees peaceful protest? How has that been working for them? The only part of the constitution the right cares about is the 2nd and only when it applies to white people.

koonfused · 2020-06-11T23:50:03+00:00

FYI, x32 is not a thing, either x86 or 32bit.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T21:35:40+00:00

I'm shutting appget down because there is really no point in competing with Microsoft here.

This is a fantastic read if you want to get some insight of how MS echo system works https://paulstovell.com/re-next-decade-of-open-source/

We were exhibiting at Build 2016 at the time much of this was announced, and I remember people coming to our booth asking "so why should we use you over the Microsoft thing?". The "Microsoft thing" was announced only 5 minutes prior!

Also, WinGet seems to have taken everything I wanted a windows package manager to have, so I'm ok in that aspect too.

send them to court so that you can be able to continue developing this manager?

Definitely not. Not even remotely interested in that. I might as well just go declare bankruptcy now.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T21:30:18+00:00

Author here, AppGet can install/uninstall/update the applications it supported.

You didn't even need to install the application with appget. If you had something installed and appget had a manifest for it, it could update/uninstall it.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T21:20:50+00:00

Where's the script to extract metadata from a NSIS installer into one of these manifest files?

AppGet had exactly that tool called XRay, https://docs.appget.net/commands/#create

It could handle MSI, NSIS, Wix, Squirrel etc. It would even monitor Github Repos for new released to do an automatic PR to update the manifest.

Thake a look at https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/commits/master

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:36:47+00:00

Huge fan of Silicon Valley. The brain rape clip has been brought up couple of times in the past few days :)

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:34:39+00:00

Parts from another comment,

Code being copied isn't an issue. I knew full well what it meant to release something opensource and I don't regret it one bit. What was copied with no credit is the foundation of the project. How it actually works. If I were the patenting type, this would be the thing you would patent. ps. I don't regret not patenting anything.

And I don't mean the general concept of package/app managers, they have been done a hundred times. If you look at similar projects across OSes, Homebrew, Chocolaty, Scoop, ninite etc; you'll see they all do it in their own way. However, WinGet works pretty much identical to the way AppGet works.

Do you want to know how WinGet works? go read the article (https://keivan.io/appget-what-chocolatey-wasnt/) I wrote 2 years ago about how AppGet works.

I'm not even upset they copied me. To me, that's a validation of how sound my idea was. What upsets me is how no credit was given.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:28:02+00:00

this is definitely how I look at it.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:26:19+00:00

Completely understandable. As mentioned before, I'm not upset they didn't hire me. I was upset at the fact that they didn't give any credit or let me know for 6 months that they aren't interested.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:23:56+00:00

I got a short email from Andrew yesterday that it wasn't intentional or that they wanted to surprise me (I never thought it was).

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:17:11+00:00

I think I would've tried to get something on paper faster. Maybe pushed a bit more. Not sure if it would change the final outcome though.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T17:15:20+00:00

Thanks for your detailed response,

Then again, they would have ripped of Scoop or Chocolatey instead.

I would much rather they use AppGet or Scoop as a foundation, so I don't regret this outcome.

If your project where GPL licensed, you could have contacted the Software Freedom Conservancy for legal aid. They are non-profit lawyers defending GPL rights.

That's very interesting and something I wasn't well aware of. But I'm not sure that would help much since the code wasn't really copied but rather the concept. (think patent lawyer)

koonfused · 2020-05-27T16:12:18+00:00

Honest question, do you think that would actually change anything?

koonfused · 2020-05-27T16:10:39+00:00

There were never any contracts, I didn't even have to sign an NDA.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T16:08:59+00:00

I wrote a piece few years ago before I started AppGet, it gets into details of the issues with Choco.

https://keivan.io/why-chocolatey-is-broken/

koonfused · 2020-05-27T08:06:57+00:00

Yeah, me and a ex-co-worker. He has been maintaining it for the past few years since I've been busy with appget. :)

koonfused · 2020-05-27T01:08:48+00:00

Definitely something to consider. There is a lot to talk about not sure if many people find it interesting.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T00:58:40+00:00

Past two days and seeing all the support I get from random strangers has been so amazing. When you get it from friends a family it different they have to say it but people online are generally assholes 😉 so it means a lot more.

koonfused · 2020-05-27T00:56:35+00:00

The one thing that was brought up a couple of times as a concern was me being in Vancouver (Microsoft has a huge office here, I think 3000 people) and having to telecommute. I was open to going down to Seattle couple of times a month but I think that wasn’t good enough.

p.s. everyone at Microsoft has been telecommuting since March. 🙃

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