Comment by jen20
1 day ago
> Chocolatey, which popped up out of nowhere
Chocolatey assuredly did not "pop up out of nowhere" - it was a labour of love from Rob Reynolds to make Windows even barely usable. It likely existed for years before you ever heard of it.
> had no visible source of funding
Rob was employed by Puppet Labs to develop it until he started the commercial entity which now backs it.
> a small building in the middle of nowhere.
As I recall, Rob lives in Topeka, Kansas. It follows that his business would be incorporated there, no?
There was no evidence of any of this on the website until recently (maybe 2 or 3 years ago?), and I did look at every page on there. Similarly, I searched on Google for a while and raised the question in more than a few forums. I dug through the business registration records, etc... and found none of the above.
Sure, now, they have staff photos and the actual names of people on their about page, but just a few years ago it was almost completely devoid of information: https://web.archive.org/web/20190906125729/https://chocolate...
Look at it from the perspective of a paranoid sysadmin half way around the world raising a quizzical eyebrow when random Reddit posts mention how convenient it is, but it's distributing binaries to servers with absolutely no obvious links back to any organisations, people, or even a legitimate looking business building.