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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

and then just shut it down

He "shut it down" because Reddit intentionally made it impossible to continue. He had no control over that.

refused to open source it.

Why is he obligated to open source it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

exactly, infinity for reddit became eternity for Lemmy

because open source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Welp, glad everyone isn’t like you. The world would be much worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Narwhal found a way, gonna need some 'splainin' as to how he was singled out

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never received it. Gonna call Apple soon. Damn shame for all involved :(