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Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by NewsaHackO »

matsemann wrote: post #9
dartharva wrote: post #8

LOL, I remember this one being a famous traitor to FOSS by starting out as a community project and then closing doors to make money from it. Guess they weren't able to make any money after all. Karma in action.

Or it's just another example of why FOSS fails - people (like you) expect free labor and never want to pay for it. They tried to make it a sustainable project, and it would probably have died even earlier if they didn't. > For the last 5 years, PySimpleGUI offered free software with the hope of sustaining the project with donations. We appreciate the support we received, but the amount has been too small to support t…

I don't think this is a complete characterization of what happened. From looking at a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369353), the owner curiously did not allow outside contributions to his GPL project. This is odd, especially if it seems like he was complaining about having issues with maintenance of the project. Then, after he tried to switch the license, he deleted/obfuscated the repo history. Even though it is GPL, because he had the "foresight" of not allowing outside contributions, he was able to take this action unilaterally. I suspect that the owner had his mind on commercialization from the very beginning, and was using the whole FOSS bit as a way to get free publicity before rugpulling.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by elteto »

dartharva wrote: post #8

LOL, I remember this one being a famous traitor to FOSS by starting out as a community project and then closing doors to make money from it. Guess they weren't able to make any money after all. Karma in action.

And you say this as a prolific open source contributor I’m sure.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by ezst »

GeorgeTirebiter wrote: post #19

I had heavily used PySimpleGUI in various work projects, and one day, when I had to run some older piece of code I had not run in a while, I get a notice that PySimpleGUI won't work, because was free, but nobody paid, and so, good luck! So I was piping mad, paid the 3-year or whatever the max license fee was, received a code, and THEN I was able to get my stuff to work, like it used to. LESSON: N E V E R Use code tha…

> never use code that can stop working until you pay ransom

Funny because that describes pretty much exactly "cloud-first" software architecture, and people jumping on it in troves, unexplainably.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by whatever1 »

Today I wanted to build a simple ui that maps time across 3 time zones.

After spending some time thinking about using it across my Mac and Linux machines, I just had Claude write an html file.

Nice, simple runs everywhere.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by [deleted] »

mutagen wrote: post #11

Great to see this back as Open Source (LGPL 3.0). However, it points out the continuous need for proper funding for Open Source. Tough in ZIRP times, exponentially more difficult in more difficult economic times.

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Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by HPsquared »

whatever1 wrote: post #25

Today I wanted to build a simple ui that maps time across 3 time zones. After spending some time thinking about using it across my Mac and Linux machines, I just had Claude write an html file. Nice, simple runs everywhere.

Local HTML files with embedded JavaScript are fantastic for mini portable apps. You can even load/save files with some finesse.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by nicce »

harwoodr wrote: post #4
DonThomasitos wrote: post #3

It would be great to have a few screenshots on the readme.md or Doc pages to understand quickly what we‘re talking about.

https://www.pysimplegui.com/

Should be in the README.md

They kinda assume everyone knows it. Maybe the same thought process led to commercialization…

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by hereme888 »

marshray wrote: post #18
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #5

I think AI coding has made these "we dumb down a real UI framework for you" libraries obsolete. Anyone can get a GTK or QT app up and running now. This isn't a criticism, they were very useful to build GUIs in the past, but now they are just obsolete and more likely to introduce bugs or limitations you can't work around than to help much.

Is this a new form of gatekeeping? I.e., "too human-friendly to survive in the presence of The Great AI™". If so, where does that lead us?

That's an aggressively negative over-interpretation of OP. Clearly not what was meant.

Re: PySimpleGUI 6

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Post by kergonath »

ezst wrote: post #23
GeorgeTirebiter wrote: post #19

I had heavily used PySimpleGUI in various work projects, and one day, when I had to run some older piece of code I had not run in a while, I get a notice that PySimpleGUI won't work, because was free, but nobody paid, and so, good luck! So I was piping mad, paid the 3-year or whatever the max license fee was, received a code, and THEN I was able to get my stuff to work, like it used to. LESSON: N E V E R Use code tha…

> never use code that can stop working until you pay ransom Funny because that describes pretty much exactly "cloud-first" software architecture, and people jumping on it in troves, unexplainably.

I suppose at some point enough of them will get burned, there will be a swing back and everything old will be new again, and so on and so on.
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