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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 248 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (17 children)

Sync is just so much more polished and feature-rich than all of these already... It's exactly like how it was when it was for reddit, and it's just one dev! I don't mind at all paying for a fantastic app.

You guys are taking the justified corpo hate and extending it to talented individual devs just making a living.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    FOSS isn't about "corpo hate". It's about freedom. There's a philosophy behind it. You can, of course, disagree with it, but I think you should know what you're disagreeing with.

    If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the developer or “owner” of the program, that controls the program—and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm talking about the community. A large part of the community absolutely is about gate-keeping and hating on corporations... and now devs too apparently.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In general I strongly prefer open source, because lots of propertiary software will try to vendor lock you and then extract money from you, when it's hard to escape for you.

    In this case however I can change back to Connect or other any second, so amount of control this program has is extremely minimal and experience in exchange is better.

    Informed choice is better than picking and following dogma, because dogma doesn't work in some cases.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It's about a very narrowly and specifically defined version of freedom, which somewhat ironically restricts people's ability to define freedom for themselves.

    I personally find Apache2, MIT, or the WTFPL a lot more free-feeling than all the restrictions GPL imposes in the name of freedom.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago*

    I used to agree until I saw corporations starting to fork open source projects to run them internally like the "I made this" meme.

    If I spend months or years of my life toiling over a project and license it permissively with MIT or such, they can just swoop in one day and take it for free and be like "thanks, we're going to make mega bucks off your code and give you nothing" (and yes this does happen https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws).

    No, screw that! I'm gonna make my stuff AGPL and those guys can damn well pay me for my time of they want to use my stuff or more cynically, do it anyway or go and reimplement it themselves in-house knowing damn well I can't afford an army of lawyers to actually do anything about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Yes, the "free" in free software specifically refers to the freedom to read and modify the source code.

    That's the specific freedom we are talking about when we say "free as in freedom".

    Also, under the philosophy, permissive licenses (like MIT or BSD) is still considered free since you can see and modify the source code. The only thing the GPL strive to ensure is that this freedom will be awarded all others who interact with the fruits of your labour.

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  • [+] -14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Hating on someone based on unfounded hypotheticals is fucked up. LJ has always been very open with the community for the whole time Sync was on reddit.

    Username checks out ig?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I mean he had all the opportunity for selling Sync for reddit and take profit. I converted to Sync nearly 7 years ago when I bought their ad free version called Sync Pro. He made great improvements adding material ui and lots of desirable features for an already great app. From my POV he didn't abandon the app, gave updates till the last day of its existence and was a great dev in general who was active in his sub listening to our queries . Maybe the people who knew him from those days are the ones who is supporting him now.

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