Over a 100 comments from the Show HN a couple of weeks ago:
Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
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Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#62Looks interesting. I'd love to see more screen shots. Is there a gallery somewhere? I poked around the site a bit but didn't find one. Tthough perhaps I just missed it. Been known to happen.)
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#63Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but I correctly guessed from the domain name and later, the contents of the page, that [1] the author is Russian, and [2] the file manager resembles the layout of FAR, another file manager of Russian origin and seemingly very popular among them. In short, what is it with Russians and this type of file manager? It's a very curious association.
In general what is it that people love about dual pane file managers? I love alternate UIs but I've never understood this one.
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I think downvoting this comment is unfair, it should be noted that if you care about your OS and tools being open-source, you probably shouldn’t be running OSX in the first place. I might even suggest running Linux. Oh my :)
This all or nothing mentality doesn't often end up being useful in practice. For example, try doing some deep learning on Linux with CUDA without installing closed source NVIDIA drivers. The important detail is who provided the software and in this case most people are going to trust Apple or NVIDIA significantly more than a small third-party software developer they've never heard of. (FWIW many of us tried running L…
Instead of buying whatever windows/mac computer looks like a good deal and hoping it runs linux buy with linux in mind and you will have an easier experience.
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#65Just downloaded the beta. Saturday morning. The time I opened the app. I realized I have Emacs dired. I don't need this...
Sorry. The UI does look good.
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#66Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but I correctly guessed from the domain name and later, the contents of the page, that [1] the author is Russian, and [2] the file manager resembles the layout of FAR, another file manager of Russian origin and seemingly very popular among them. In short, what is it with Russians and this type of file manager? It's a very curious association.
I'm Russian and I have no idea! But I can confirm that it's very popular amongst old Russian developers.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marta author here. I agree with you that the open source software has higher level of trust than the proprietary one, but I afraid I just can't maintain Marta steadily for a long time if it was open-sourced (and then forever free). And I doubt the community will do that instead of me. In case if you're interested, I expressed my thoughts about this here [1] earlier. I do promise, though, that Marta will never collect…
Is there a reason to not license it under a dual license? Have the source code open with a non commercial license and also distribute the binaries under a commercial license. I’m not sure that it will have a significant impact on the revenue since most people would likely opt out and purchase the binary rather than building it on their own.
Most people won't but somebody else will make the builds and then offer those builds. Example: CentOS
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#68The file manager seems to be closed-source[1], does anyone know of any good open-source alternatives ? [1] https://github.com/marta-file-manager/
I've been using Nimble Commander for a while now. Snappy, similar to Total Commander on Windows and I love it. The developer recently made it open source and published the code on GitHub here: https://github.com/mikekazakov/nimble-commander I'm not sure if that's the kind of open source you were looking for, but may be worth checking out.
Wow. When I used macOS, I used this manager a lot and it's awesome. Now Open Source, it's even more awesome.
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#69Perhaps this is a bit off-topic, but I correctly guessed from the domain name and later, the contents of the page, that [1] the author is Russian, and [2] the file manager resembles the layout of FAR, another file manager of Russian origin and seemingly very popular among them. In short, what is it with Russians and this type of file manager? It's a very curious association.
In general what is it that people love about dual pane file managers? I love alternate UIs but I've never understood this one.
If you only use a file manager for browsing/opening files, a single window makes sense. But as soon as you want to do a copy/cut and paste, you end up having to browse back and forth between two directories anyway. Dual pane is optimized for that workflow.
Re: Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a reason to not license it under a dual license? Have the source code open with a non commercial license and also distribute the binaries under a commercial license. I’m not sure that it will have a significant impact on the revenue since most people would likely opt out and purchase the binary rather than building it on their own.
Most people won't but somebody else will make the builds and then offer those builds. Example: CentOS
See that's why I see CentOS as not necessarily a very good thing. It dents into the idea of making money with open source product.