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It’s a $22 paid app. Of course it’s not going to be open sourced.
I think there are some open source macOS apps that provide code but sell binaries on the App Store, no?
I dropped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired. Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)
Evernote never worked reliably, well, or consistently. Apple Notes squished their business model and now Obsidian has somewhat juiced Apple's.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40579660
What looks odd to me is this silence about acquisition. I've got a lot of emails and read enough blog posts from developers that brags about new owners and new opportunities that goes with it. Bartender is just utility app, but has permissions to e.g screen recording, so new version from new developer without prior explanation just seems shady
The support article doesn't mention the cert change or the new owners, and instead calls it "a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings."
Highly disingenuous. I've uninstalled Bartender.
I got a new Mac recently, had run Bartender in the past and decided to but the newest version without checking it out first. I was surprised to see the screen recording permission. This was 12 days ago. I wrote support saying: > I think screen recording is too much of a privacy and security concern. > Even if you have no bad intentions, if someone compromises your security, they have access to an app that I've allowe…
This permission request predated the change of ownership of Bartender.
This is the danger of closed source software. There is no guarantee that the developers incentives will remain aligned with yours.
This happens with OSS apps as well, see the Simple Mobile Tools takeover by an Israeli adware company, affecting several popular Android apps (Gallery, File Manager, others). https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
Use Ice instead: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer
(For what its worth it looks like it hasn't been update in 3+ years)