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    On the one hand, nice jab. Unfair since he wasn’t interested, but get his jollies where he can, I guess.

    On the other, he knew longer than most that Reddit was done. He can pivot to Lemmy at any time.

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        461 year ago

        Thanks for the link. I didn’t think he’s in the least interested in Lemmy. Unsure why he’s upset that someone else took the ball that he wasn’t interested in and ran with it.

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          11 year ago

          Think about it. If you’d given so much of yourself over to crafting and honing an app like Apollo over the years and all that happened, happened… would you not be a tad deflated and exasperated?

          I don’t blame him. Let him cool off for about 5 years. He’ll see it as a tribute one day.

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          81 year ago

          Because there’s a stark difference between “playing ball” as it were, and essentially trying to make an identical ball without permission.

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            161 year ago

            A ball is a ball. The idea to make a spherical object cannot be copyrighted. Unless the Voyager dev somehow copied Apollo’s source code, there’s not a bloody thing that Christian can do except grumble and snark.

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              81 year ago

              I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

              All that being said I don’t think Christian is going to take any negative actions against the project; if he was going to, he probably would have done so sooner.

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                Please explain what actions he could take?

                Unless someone stole his source or assets there is no action to be taken.

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                  Why couldn’t he do what Narwal is doing?

                  Edit: he basically did what Reddit did and everyone’s cheering his nobillity or whatever. Interesting 🪳

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                61 year ago

                I think people on this site are a bit too used to open source projects you can just fork and use based on their license. This is not the case here.

                But the voyager dev has not seen or used apollo’s code to build voyager. He has done everything from scratch only taking heavy inspiration from Apollo. Christian has helped indirectly by being the one to develop the UI which serves as inspiration but considering that voyager is not a competitor to apollo, in my opinion he has no right to be outraged at the fact that it is a looklike. He is free to not contribute to voyager and it is true that he has already contributed a lot indirectly but him getting angry or upset at the fact that the UI is pretty similar makes no sense to me.

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                  41 year ago

                  And a lot of that UI was requested and suggested by redditors along the development of the app. Christian said as much in many of his posts.

                  Also much of Apollo was influenced by the Alien Blue UI that Reddit had already taken away (and how I got a bunch of years worth of free gold).

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              181 year ago

              Interesting. I could see him getting upset if it was monetized but I agree that it makes no sense when he has expressed zero interest in doing it himself.

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                He needs to do his business or kindly remove his cheeks from the throne. I’m disappointed with his comments even though they don’t concern me in the least. I don’t think i rver got my lifetime/platinum fee back, be calling Apple soon to get that cleared up if it isn’t too late

                Edit: i needed an extra $40 so this works out perfectly