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Christian (Apollo Dev) on contributing to Voyager (reddthat.com)

submitted 9 months ago by UgandaSans@reddthat.com to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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[-] SinTacks@programming.dev 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 46 points 9 months 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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 37 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] SinTacks@programming.dev 13 points 9 months 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.

[-] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

exactly, infinity for reddit became eternity for Lemmy

because open source

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months 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

[-] SinTacks@programming.dev 4 points 9 months 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.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] SinTacks@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 29 points 9 months 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.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He made millions off the app? Okay, so? Reddit makes more off of user data they don't even make, then gets mad when people make a better app than them or another large company decides to scrape the data that isn't even their's. If he made millions as you claim in your complaint about white knighters, he probably made millions because people really liked his app.

Also, no-one is obligated to open-source their code. It's their choice if they wish to or not. Yeah, it might suck, but it's not the end of the world, and that sort of entitled behaviour only pushes away the people who could potentially open-source their code. I've fell into that trap too.