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Wow, pretty clear how he feels about it. But also he made plenty of money of Apollo and then just shut it down and refused to open source it. So I don’t feel particularly inclined to change my behavior here.
Edit: All these people white knighting a dev that made millions off his app.
Why would he have any obligation to open source a project he was shutting down? If he made the code open, that would be a kind and generous gesture. Not an expected and assumed action.
No obligation. Why do you think we have an obligation to honor his legacy when he prematurely killed the project himself?
Edit: killed the project. I guess I need to mash it into babyfoof for you to understand
.......... What?
Honor his legacy? Prematurely killed himself??
What the fuck are you even talking about dude
What the fuck are you talking about? What is even the point of your comment? This is all very Gatekeepery, like your words are actually gonna have any influence or stop anyone from doing anything?
Fucking LOL, let me know how that keeps working out for you if you don't delete comment out of embarassment
What are you high on right now? None of your comments even make sense. What is gatekeeping about understanding someones decision to not make their private work open source?
You understand this guy didnt kill himself right?
Might wanna read the edit. Is everyone like a non-English speaker or just particularly childlike in their abillity to grasp figurative language
I fuckin hope that wasnt an attempt at figurative language, cause it implies youre illiterate.
You understand reddit killed his app, yes? Refusing to build a new app for a different site that mimics his old one isnt killing anything, premature or otherwise
No he killed his app. Narwhals running just fine, its just a subscription nowadays, which is fine
Because reddit staff directly antagonized and lied to him, with clear intent to drive him away from his project.
Why would he fight to sneak under the radar to give support to a company that made explicit actions to crash his software reputation with other companies? They tried to blacklist him from software development.
The fuck is wrong with you, dude? Youre not just entitled to other peoples hard work, this is well beyond that
Voyager is not Christian's work. I will use it freely but my fave is Memmy so its kinda irrelevant anyways. Can you be a little more polite, nobody's gonna want to talk to you if you can't deal with an idea
Also you're moving the goalposts. First it was
A. he didn't wanna play ball with Reddit
Now there's a B
B. Well, even if he wanted to he doesn't want to contribute to people using Reddit or economically benefitting them
Which is it?
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I didn’t say he was obligated to open source it. He gains nothing by keeping it closed. If he had open sourced it I could still use it because I have a Reddit API key. If he open sourced it, it could be converted to work with Lemmy. But he effectively burned it down.
He doesn’t owe it to me to open source it but I can still think it was a shitty selfish decision.
exactly, infinity for reddit became eternity for Lemmy
because open source
He also gains nothing from open sourcing it
People need to stop having the expectation that everything should be open source. It shouldn’t, nor will it ever be
It costs him nothing and makes thousands of people happy. It contributes to the open source landscape which he built on heavily. Search his Reddit profile for open source mentions and see for yourself.
And?
Why does he owe his work to you and anyone else who wants to take it and use it as their own?
I don’t open source anything I intend to actually do anything with, and I’d assume he has a similar policy.
Welp, glad everyone isn’t like you. The world would be much worse.
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I have open sourced software and contributed to open source software. Bet you haven’t. Sure is nice for you to get the benefits of open source with Voyager though isn’t it?
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He is not obligated in anything but it shouldn't suprise him or be sour about other devs stepping in to do what he doesn't want to do. It doesn't help that he acts like this is done out of malice even though it's not.
Narwhal found a way, gonna need some 'splainin' as to how he was singled out
I mean, he provided a great app for free for years. Why should he open source it, just because he also earned cash with it? As far as I know he was also in talks with premium members so that they could get their money back but I’m not updated on that. And of course he shut it down, the app essentially became useless.
I never received it. Gonna call Apple soon. Damn shame for all involved :(
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He was a bit of a tit. Started introducing ads and nags, after people paid lifetime .
He came with the ‘I’m just a solo dev …”. Schtick ….
But turned out to be money grabbing dick. Apps for lemmy popped up virtually overnight, which suggest it’s not hard.
This is the most presumptuous comment I've ever read regarding any kind of development. Wow.
Well now we have multiple great FOSS options instead of one or two dominant paid apps. I was a happy Apollo user, but the current state of things feels more in line with the ideals behind Lemmy. So maybe his actions led to a more positive outcome than if he had kept on going like people wanted.
You’re entirely wrong, but you do you.
Dude what the hell? Just... wtf
Why was this removed please ?