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Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/opensource
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just personal ideology. Said paid software is the wonderful CrossOver.

[–] ulterno 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see.
Guess I need to look into what CrossOver is doing.

Normally, I would feel like if a free app (OSS on top of it) is threatening the viability of a paid one, the latter is not particularly worth the payment.

Now unless CrossOver is actually an Open Source paid app and is significantly contributing to the Open Source part despite loss of competitive advantage, that might make sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

CrossOver's CodeWeavers is a co-op and most of the people who maintain Wine, including Wine's project lead. CrossOver the product is proprietary per-app environmental preconfigurations with professional support.

[–] ulterno 1 points 2 days ago

I see.

That makes sense to give a preference to.
And now Whisky-dev's words make more sense.