Move ZIG for great justice!
Love Codeberg. Just wish there would also be HackerHill, BytePeak and SoftwareSummit with federation!
I love that Codeberg exists, but there's one thing I kinda dislike.
I'd like to use the same forge for my private projects (hey, a couple of them may make money one day! I gotta eat too) as I do for open source stuff, but Codeberg is explicitly open source only.
It's a minor thing, really. Which I could get past by using another Forgejo instance, like Codefloe. But these smaller instances, how long will they be around?
I suppose just running my own git server, with or without a forge attached to it, for private projects, is the only real solution. But then I have even more things to self-host lol
I see this as a feature not bug, and tbh kinda resent those who hoard information and try to extract wealth from it. Extremely rude to the giants whose shoulders your work is built on. I'm the person who's going to crack and redistribute your shit as soon as you publish it, nice to meet you :)
I’m the person who’s going to crack and redistribute your shit as soon as you publish it, nice to meet you :)
Out of curiosity, how do you crack and redistribute backend code as soon as a service is published?
Client-side code is usually Javascript for everything made in the last 10 years anyway, it doesn't need a lot of cracking lol, it's usually just minimized.
Anyway, say I'm building something that has taken me years of working in a specific industry to even be able to understand the requirements, that's only useful for companies (NOT private individuals, though some companies may only have 1-2 employees, but many will have thousands). There's literally no way it would benefit a private individual because for the 10% of it that overlaps with things private individuals also do, there's already great open source solutions. What exactly is the problem with charging money for it, given that it's ONLY going to be used by for-profit companies who are themselves charging money for their services?
Not really a project that would benefit normal people. You and I would have no use for it.
That was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing, "cracking" something isn't always possible or necessary. If your service was unique/useful enough, I would contribute to reverse engineering enough of that backend to replicate its functionality. More likely I'd just refuse to use it and support open alternatives
Unsolicited advice though, giving stuff away generates a huge amount of goodwill that can be way more useful and rewarding than revenue. Contributors instead of employees, love instead of money, place and purpose instead of points in your bank account. I'm not wealthy by any means, but I'm comfortable enough and haven't had to buy a laptop since high school
You:
That was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing
Also you:
I’m the person who’s going to crack and redistribute your shit as soon as you publish it, nice to meet you :)
My brother in christ that's the exact line I was referring to, what else in the wide world of reading comprehension do you think I was talking about?
Sounded to me like you were firing off at someone for having a private personal project by claiming that you would personally intervene to prevent them making any money from their code, then later you told them that they were being self aggrandizing. That's how it comes across.
You doubled down on your threat with detail, which doesn't give readers the context to be able to deduce that you meant to be in the slightest bit self aware or apologetic, so without re-quoting yourself, it came across as hypocritical.
Maybe "sorry, that was somewhat facetious and self-aggrandizing of me" and then not doubling down might have come across better. That's what I think, anyway.
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