I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.
I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?
I want Sync to succeed for the benefit of the community. Open-source guarantees that the community will always retain that benefit.
I wonder. Is this sentiment common among members of the Lemmy community?
There’s already one open source Lemmy app - the official one, Jerboa. It’s actually pretty good and getting weekly updates. Someone could use it as base for another app, or simply collaborate on GitHub to add new features.
I don’t think it’s fair to expect Sync to be open source, and I can almost guarantee that your payment of 15x the normal amount would still be too little versus how many versions will be compiled and distributed for free with premium features enabled. Unlike iOS (thankfully!) Android allows any .apk to be installed, which also means most paid open source apps either: bundle super annoying and broken DRM activations… Or lose a lot of money due to the huge amount of people sideloading it.
That depends on how many people feel the same as me, and I know how we could find out.
While it seems to have fallen out of favor, crowdfunding is excellent at helping to resolving that kind of uncertainty.
@ljdawson, please consider how much it would be worth to you, and start a campaign. Go open-source If the target is reached.
I’m not LJ, but I’m a software developer myself. And let me tell you one thing - if something is free then 99% of users won’t pay anything. And it doesn’t matter what they say on forums and how much they want to pay. Free is such a good price that people are willing to sell their soul and give up their privacy for free shit. If that wasn’t the case, Facebook would die many years ago, but here we are.
So, regarding to your “That depends on how many people feel the same as me” - you’re alone in this, mate.