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>>lostms+(OP)
This is why it's important to license FOSS projects under the (A)GPL, rather than the MIT license. It makes it far less profitable for companies to steal your ideas/code, and ensures that anything based on your work will put users first.

>>jasonh+Gn
They didn’t copy the code, just the APIs and ideas.

In another words, if ideas were copyrighted, GNU/Linux wouldn’t exist.

>>shp0ng+Op
Their lawyers will have a hard time justifying that none of the original source was used to create their new win-get project, given that the author of appget has met with the engineering team directly.

So if it were GPL, microsoft would likely need to license their new winget project under GPL, which would be a win/win for open source.

>>chii+wv
> Their lawyers will have a hard time justifying that none of the original source was used to create their new win-get project, given that the author of appget has met with the engineering team directly.

Exactly