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by servilio 2213 days ago
Though I agree that this is not an example of EEE, it is still very similar to behaviour from the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_law...

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Kind of. The difference is that AppGet is open source with no patents - so what they did was legal and, you might say, within ethical boundaries (except for the way they treated Keivan by stringing him along and then ghosting him) - though I could be persuaded that it isn't ethical for a trillion-dollar company to simply copy an existing open-source project, without some sort of voluntary compensation.