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salusinarduis | 2 years ago

You gave this exact same answer to me in your Discord a year ago. If nothing sketchy is going on why not just open source the thing?

At a minimum you should remove the banner at the bottom of the page claiming it's open source.

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jkbr|2 years ago

> You gave this exact same answer to me in your Discord a year ago. If nothing sketchy is going on why not just open source the thing?

We appreciate your interest, but we never gave an ETA. I do regret having made the intention public, though.

> At a minimum you should remove the banner at the bottom of the page claiming it's open source.

That’s a good point. As I wrote in another comment below: I’ve now updated the website template not to show the image with the slogan on this page. Thanks for the feedback.

salusinarduis|2 years ago

Good on you for altering the page. I very much hope to see the desktop client become open source soon, as I would very much like to use it. Best of luck with the project.

da39a3ee|2 years ago

I don't understand; why do you think it is "sketchy" to try to make a living out of software?

(For reference, I work as a software engineer and am also the author of a popular open source project which I give away for free and have put thousands of hours into.)

jeanlucas|2 years ago

>I don't understand; why do you think it is "sketchy" to try to make a living out of software?

I don't think the original comment meant that it is sketchy to make a living out of software. I think the issue is the posturing as open source, having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y and even sharing it on HackerNews right after the issues with closed source by Postman too. Feels like an "open source alternative", but not really, hence the sketchy accusation.

But this is just how I read it.