this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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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.
He "shut it down" because Reddit intentionally made it impossible to continue. He had no control over that.
Why is he obligated to open source it?
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.
Well maybe when you write your own insanely popular and lucrative software you can choose to open-source it
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?
That's great! I'm glad to hear that!
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 :(
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.
Why was this removed please ?