I was replying to someone who only regarded the point of the credit.
> I'm guessing he didn't engage them in dishonest attempts to hire them just to learn more about their ideas and then walk away
...allegedly.
The onus of evidence is on you. Until then, we can safely assume cock-up before conspiracy.
Many, many big companies don't call you back after an interview and we all know this.
How so? It was an interview for him to bring AppGet in-house to Microsoft. That's normal software business.
Honestly, based on what this Keivan said - I think he scared Microsoft away with his demands that they take the project only in a direction that he approves of.
And when they went away, they took some of the most banal ideas, ideas that have been done a thousand times in other projects and used them in their own - which they built in a completely different programming language with exception to the very, very common YAML configuration.
> Second, be honest; do you have any stake in the game yourself? Do you work for microsoft?
Nope. People who disagree are simply wrong and I'm attempting to correct their ill-formed point of view.
Meanwhile, you're shitting up the comments with this trashy ad hominem insinuation of shilling. It's against the rules and you should stop doing it - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Regardless of that, I'm guessing he didn't engage them in dishonest attempts to hire them just to learn more about their ideas and then walk away.