• SinTacks@programming.dev
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      1 year 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.

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        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

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          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.

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      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.