> I didn’t even have to explain to her how the core mechanics, terminology, the manifest format and structure, even the package repository’s folder structure, are very inspired by AppGet.
I read “inspired” as “blatantly copied”. Not shocked at this from Microsoft. But not giving due credit is just a rip off. Seems like Andrew and whoever else corresponded with you were arm twisted by jerks (or had more jerks in their teams).
If anyone in the Winget team is reading this, your organization sucks. It seems to be showing signs of Microsoft from the ‘90s.