Yeah fair enough.

Yeah but some urban legends deserve to be kept alive for some time.

Wrong number… right energy

Funnily this post is so meta as it is trying to ascribe multiple behavior to what looks like a single entity called Lemmy whereas it’s a town square that anyone can post to.

Not aware of the toxicity… any starting point for this storyline?

not available in India too

Ooh it’s one of those “fact-check” articles. Welp… pack it up boys…

It’s going to be quite rare… and I do like that we have better visual warning to users that something went wrong instead of a wall of colorless text.

Being good has nothing to do with having to maintain your company’s code base that’s in Oracle’s Java SE 1.6.

You can’t just design your way out of a conflict whose solution is to change either the existing system architecture or change Java versions,

both suggestions will get you laughed out of the room.

Who’s we here? You’re getting downvoted to oblivion because of your hostility. I am merely replying in kind.

The entire FOSS community works for very little compensation. You’re not special. Read the fucking room. A lot of people spend their free time building cool shit to share with the community. You’re a prick if you think that you’re in the right calling people in the FOSS community entitled.

You’re a dumbass who can’t read and doesn’t understand foss.

Actually the LGPL legally binds the dev to distributing those versions. So you’re just a troll. I am done replying to you but it has been fun watching you try to justify shit in the name of compensation.

Show us where the dev said exactly that.

You’re asking me to show me where the dishonest person admitted to being dishonest.

Apparently you want me to point out where I took the developer’s words but intentions are not words. You’re deliberately trying to argue that I am accusing the dev of things they did not do, but that’s not true. I am only arguing on their actions and assigning motive to their actions which I make clear in all my comments.

You’re the one who is calling people entitled for expecting LGPL code to be FOSS. I am merely replying to your comments.

The history change was probably to avoid violating the LGPL. If any contributors don’t agree with the change (or you don’t want to do the onerous task of getting consensus as required) you should remove their contributions from the work you make closed source as the contributions still come under LGPL until the original author consents to the change.

Or at least that’s what people said here.

Right, people usually carry a banner stating their intentions clearly and unambiguously.

not enough people donated

Sounds like entitlement to me

Only to a certain extent.

The problem is that a lot of software is very complex and requires full-time development/maintenance. It’s simply not possible to work on stuff for free unless this is just a hobby and you can sustain yourself with a main job.

The main thing I have a problem with this instance is the following sequence of events

1. The developer licensed it as LGPL.
2. They did not accept ANY contributions to the code.
3. The project became popular enough for people to post about in the fediverse (quite popular then, I guess)
4. They got donations for their work, but apparently it was not enough.
5. They removed the project from being accessible and moved to a paid only model.

This tells me:

1. Their intention all along was to abuse FOSS community for popularity, traction, clout and free testing by people who are also doing this stuff in their free time.
2. They got donations, but for whatever reason it was not enough for them. => Were they expecting to make retirement level income from their project which is in a crowded segment?

Hey, A lot of people spent their precious free time to look at your project, test it out, and talking about it to their colleagues. How are you going to pay us for wasting however many minutes or hours of time spent on your supposedly open source project before you did the bait-and-switch?

(By “you” I meant the developer.)