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

submitted 10 months ago by UgandaSans@reddthat.com to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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[–] SinTacks@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (33 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.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 36 points 10 months ago (11 children)

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 10 months ago (3 children)

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 10 months ago

exactly, infinity for reddit became eternity for Lemmy

because open source

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 months ago

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

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