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There's something fishy with this company, people report getting charged without asking, however all the positive reviews of said company is from specifically app devs who sold their app to this company![0] [0] https://www.trustpilot.com/review/zipoapps.com?page=2
In today’s economy, if you don’t pay for your oss apps they might be sold to the highest bidder at some point.
This is unethical. I don't necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors. No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit. When confronted on GitHub, the devel…
What a bunch of idiots.
This is unethical. I don't necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors. No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit. When confronted on GitHub, the devel…
Now, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom of that thread and GitHub, but no one really seem to ask him why he didn’t give notice of to anybody. The comments were either like, no, don’t do it, or we’ve gotta fork this. They weren’t really about how he has handled the issue.
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> Oh, no. I liked those tools, but I don't let them update since they started having "premium versions". Expecting project maintainers to solely fund the development of open source projects used by millions of people is the leopard that keeps eating our faces.
Simple Mobile makes apps like file managers and image galleries. Just how much work is required to maintain this besides keeping the file access API up to date? Not sure if that's even had any breaking changes on Android in the past several years.
It's regrettable that the funding model of these projects did not work out, and that the developer sold these apps without informing users about the change of ownership.
Though it feels like at this point we are bargaining for the amount of free work we are expected to get from this person, while sneering at the prospect of there being a paid version of the app published on Google Play as part of the original funding model that was in place long before the sale.
This is unethical. I don't necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors. No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit. When confronted on GitHub, the devel…
This is unethical. I don't necessarily blame the developer for selling: I understand that some offers are difficult to refuse. But I absolutely do blame him for being dishonest to his users and contributors. No one was told about this. People only found out about the sale by chance, because someone noticed that the Play Store listing details were changed and made a post on Reddit. When confronted on GitHub, the devel…
Doesn't the GPL protect third-party contributions in ways that liberal licences do not? I think the author might have trouble re-licensing third-party GPL contributions under a proprietary licence, but IANAL.
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> Oh, no. I liked those tools, but I don't let them update since they started having "premium versions". Expecting project maintainers to solely fund the development of open source projects used by millions of people is the leopard that keeps eating our faces.
Simple Mobile makes apps like file managers and image galleries. Just how much work is required to maintain this besides keeping the file access API up to date? Not sure if that's even had any breaking changes on Android in the past several years.
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They "can" because nothing will happen to them. Is anyone really going to sue?
Not to the guy that sold, no. I expect if the new owners try to change the license people will actually care though on the principle of the matter.