Apologies for the extreme swearing that ensues. Wow, I would have hoped for better support from the HN community. Instead there are apologists after apologists. So what if Epic is big. Really, seriously shouldn't we have had alternative app stores available form the official ones. Why is this even a point of debate? All the time we hear stories of people one of our own getting fucked by these app stores and their lor…
I was asked today, something with the lines: "Why don't you organize and fight? Why don't you build an open ecosystem, which you will use to replace stores." I was thinking after that a) we could make a store (that's the simple part) b) when enough of us were behind we could pressure for it to be accepted Because even if Epic wins and we can have some improvements, it wont fix the issues I would donate and work for t…
No. We cant just slink off into IRC and build our own store. We cant just do The Right Thing, we also have to make the Wrong Thing prohibitively expensive for the general population.