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Kevin Barry, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. (lemmy.ml)

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After Working on it alone for a year, the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher Kevin Barry has stopped working on Nova Launcher and the open sourcing efforts. More Info: https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they laid off the whole team behind Kevin. I would quit too, if I saw my creation fall that way.

[-] norambna@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

What team? He wrote he was the only one working on Nova for the past year.

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago

Yea because they laid everyone off already

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