• CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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      11 months 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 months 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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            11 months 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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        11 months 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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          11 months 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.