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How much will that really change the likelihood of MS reimplementing it?

They didn't take any of the AppGet code, just the ideas.

>>solark+(OP)
Depending on who you ask, ideas are still protected by intellectual property laws. Patents are a good example.

>>solark+(OP)
They might. But it is not as simple as WinGet. It would take a team or two a couple of years to reimplement. ML.NET is 2 years old now, still has very limited deep learning capabilities, and is barely visible in trend graphs.

While they would be doing that, Azure will continue to lag behind (still does not even offer T4) on GPU offerings in comparison to AWS and GCP, because there's no compelling reason to run custom deep learning workloads on Azure. Azure is loosing $$$ millions of potential revenue to that. It would be a totally different story if .NET folks would get full TensorFlow and/or PyTorch in place of partial ports available now.