Seems so, sadly.
Apparently for some every developer should work only for love and affection from their cardboard box and release their software as a free-for-all, but at least feature-complete before they starve, or else it gets a negative review.
THED4NIEL
joined 11 months ago
Funny thing is: I did not
I find the AdBlocker in Edge lacking and most of the time I still get too many ads
Vivaldi is where it's at
Infinite money glitch
I live inside your walls oO
Free user here, so preaching to the wrong person here, honestly. Also nothing is forcing me to continue using this app, when a better competitor emerges, that's user choice for you. If you are happy with the app you're using, fine, but stop looking down on people if they find your favourite not satisfying.
I personally support OSS devs (or even non OSS) with donations when I use their stuff extensively and find the "everything must be free"-mentality dishonest and a punch in the face of the people putting the work in.
Scatterbrained me sometimes forgets to add more context, because I forget other people can't see what's been going on in my head prior. Now you know how people at work feel when interacting with me.
Or when I do a "by the way..." remark to something that was discussed hours before and nobody knows what I'm referring to.
My brain could be used to feed entropy to /dev/urandom
I have a problem with writing text that doesn't read negative or angry, so a little disclaimer beforehand: it's not :D
I see your point, I don't tell them to change or not to embrace open source.
I like open source for various reasons (especially for learning), but not everything I use has to be open source by default.
I also understand the reasoning behind apps like Sync to remain private (non-paying user btw). If you put so much effort into a project you can go two routes: release it public or keep it closed and try to monetize it. When I use an open source app extensively and it brings value to my workflow or makes my daily tasks easier I'll throw a few bucks their way (or a server license once), but how many really do that? If you release your app publicly with the option to pay or to see ads to, some people could just fork it and re-release it, stripped of both monetization models that were intended as support for the developer. (Again, from the point of view of a developer that wants to see some return for their investment of time.)
In my point of view we have the benefit of an open platform (unlike reddit). If any dev of a proprietary client fs up, you can change it without repercussions. Unless all instances suddenly decide to restrict API access or make their API pay-to-use all at once, we won't see a shhow like with Reddit.
Sometimes I want something that works as expected and gives me a pleasant/polished experience when using it.
Forgive my exaggeration, but I usually don't use my free time to look through the code of every program I want to use, at some point we reach that "I've read the TOS" problem", feels like no one even reads that anymore.
Well, honestly: to be in front of someone would require actually using the gas pedal for once
with love from a German