Developer tells Ars free app could “seriously threaten CrossOver’s viability.”…
    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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      1 month ago

      It’s not like he shut down someone else’s work. He stopped working on his own pet project. There’s nothing stopping you from picking it up and working on it. It’s publicly available. Insulting him seems juvenile and entitled. It’s not his job to supply people with this (literally, he’s not being paid for it). Even if you think he took a payout to stop working on it, or he was bullied into stopping (no support for either of these positions) it’s ok for an 18 year old to be concerned about threats from a company and it’s ok for them to take a payout for something they worked on. Again, no evidence for either, but neither of those scenarios would make it appropriate to insult him.

      Here, feel free to fork it: https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

    • Aphelion@lemm.ee
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      30 days ago

      The headline is terribly written click-bait that doesn’t have much to do with the reality of the situation. This is just another case of an open source dev backing off of a project because they’ve busy with life.

  • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    The “Paid app” he is referring to is wine for anyone too lazy to read the article

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      CrossOver actually. Which is a paid packaging for wine, with a per-program configuration, kinda like Bottles…but paid. There’s a load of quotes directly from the CrossOver parent company CEO…

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      for anyone too lazy to read the article

      Um, well considering the paid app mentioned in the article is CrossOver not wine, ig that includes you too lol (though, CrossOver does contribute back to Wine, still can’t trust them long term because profit…)

      • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        Yes, it was hyperbole, but saying “CodeWeavers does contribute back” is really downplaying it, many, if not most of the wine development is done by CodeWeavers employees (including Alexandre Julliard). Mac users buying crossover was pretty much the main economic driver turning the gears of wine for the 10-15 years before Valve started sponsoring it as well.

        still can’t trust them long term because profit

        The company is an employee owned trust (co-op) if that lessens the blow

      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        I have never understood this attitude in the open source community. You’ll mouth off all day about how profit is bad, but so many projects can only survive with the backing of invested companies. You’re chasing the perfect at the expense of the good. Would Wine even exist today without CrossOver? I think no.