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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 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.