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Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by giancarlostoro »

ceejayoz wrote: post #85
giancarlostoro wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worse yet these are not concrete points. Laws change. Things happen. Worse yet you need a lawyer from the appropriate jurisdictions just to figure out if you are lawfully using the software? At which point if you ignore the license now you are a pirate of sorts.

That applies to any license, doesn't it? Congress could abolish the public domain or ban stuff like the GPL.

The GPL is much more specific in its terms. I imagine people who break laws wont care about this software license anyway. You cant stop criminals by giving them more rules / laws to follow. Just wont ever happen.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by tigroferoce »

sbarre wrote: post #100
jjuel wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't all the other ones you mention closed source as well? Like Kraken and SourceTree for sure.

Sourcetree is provided by Atlassian, a large well-known company. Fork is made by one person. Not making any assumptions here, but if you're evaluating risks around compromises in one of the two products, I think Fork is higher risk.

Moreover, the business model of Sourcetree is somehow clear: attract users to BitBucket, and, hence, to Atlassian.

The business model of Fork is unknown, so to me it's a clear no-no. Can't afford to put a tool in my workflow not knowing if in a few months it will become yet another service I must subscribe to

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by jakear »

Tomte wrote: post #72
cyphar wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point is that it should remain a free project but put an artificial "price" instead of a donation link. This is similar to what SQLite does (offering a $1000 license, where you're basically paying for a piece of paper saying "no really, you can use this freely").

Plus the phone number of a developer, with a response 24/7, I think.

Support is actually an entirely different (and much more expensive) concept. Business Hours phone support starts at 8k, but 24/7 phone support costs as much as 85k/year.

https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by duchenne »

rsp1984 wrote: post #79

On the plus side I find Fork to be performant and clean. I prefer it over Kraken and Tower and I find it vastly better than SourceTree. I also find it somewhat similar to GitX-dev on the Mac, which is a good thing. On the minus side (and it's a big minus), it's not open source. As a developer of commercial software I basically have to trust the Fork developers not to do anything fishy with all the source code / IP th…

It is very disappointing that in 2019 we still have to rely on trusting a software vendor or reading the app souce code if it is available. That would be great to we have an OS-level system to give fine-grained permissions and restrictions to desktop apps, like on lineageOS?

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by pier25 »

SyneRyder wrote: post #23
undergrowth54 wrote: post #5

Alongside a donation link, you should put a "purchase a license" or "purchase a subscription" link. That way, an engineer can upload the resulting receipt to expensify and get reimbursed by their employer. Employers are used to paying for software licenses out of engineering budgets; Donations would generally come out of a different budget managed by someone an engineer doesn't work with day-to-day.

Another +1 for them adding a price to this. It's a really good program and even as a solo indie developer, I want to give them money so they can afford to keep working on it. Customer support takes time too, I've already emailed them about one bug & used up some minutes of the developer's time. Preferably not a subscription, though. The whole reason I started using Fork is because their competitor Tower switched to a…

I'm also looking for an alternative to Tower. Their subscription model is too expensive.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

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Post by RussianCow »

somethingnot wrote: post #95
Spacemolte wrote: post #56

The whole, if the product is free you are the product etc. So, how is this free? It really does look amazing, which is probably why I wonder how it can be free.

Git is also free. So, how are you the product when you use git?

Git is open source and a community project; Fork is closed source and developed by two people.

Re: Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows

#110

Post by thomasjonas »

machiaweliczny wrote: post #45
groundCode wrote: post #33

As someone pretty comfortable with got on the command line, what advantages would a GUI give me? I’m not trolling, it’s an honest question. Anyone with good got command line skills move to something like this and find it offers them a better workflow?

Better code review than git diff, easy to commit only subset and faster way to view all changes in commits. I'm using GitUp and it's really good although not maintained anymore.

Are you sure it's not maintained anymore? There is still activity on the GitHub repository. Just no new versions?
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