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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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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 35 points 9 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 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.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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 -1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.