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[–] SinTacks@programming.dev 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.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 46 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.

[–] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 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.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.