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

submitted 11 months ago by UgandaSans@reddthat.com to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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[-] SinTacks@programming.dev 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 53 points 11 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 44 points 11 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 17 points 11 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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago

Well maybe when you write your own insanely popular and lucrative software you can choose to open-source it

[-] SinTacks@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

That's great! I'm glad to hear that!

[-] notenoughbutter@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

exactly, infinity for reddit became eternity for Lemmy

because open source

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 4 points 11 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 6 points 11 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 3 points 11 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 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[-] quatschkopf34@feddit.de 39 points 11 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.