[KRAKRISMOTT]

Oh he very much deserved it. We need to discourage the culture in tech where people set up VC-style "conversations" with the intention of scoping out ideas.

The Winget product manager, who stole the Appget product idea, on the other hand probably does deserve the blowback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287

[supermatt]

I agree to the sentiment, but not that he should be harassed for it. It seems that too many of us are happy to hide behind the corporate veil and be less than human when it comes to treating others fairly. Google KNEW of this guys vulnerable position, had him consult on an issue, then released a (very similar) competing app (and we all know where it will be in 3 years - at least its open source this time). I get that these things happen in the corporate world every day, but that doesn't make it right.