• SinTacks@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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

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            1 year ago

            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.