• Esmoreit@lemmings.world
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    1 month ago

    Loops will be open sourced later they say.

    Is Loops open source? It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

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      That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

      I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution

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      1 month ago

      That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.

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          Which I think dansup should deserve our trust on this for quite a long time for doing. It isn’t empty promises if they already made Pixelfed and opensourced it.

          Like… I suppose it could be a grift, anything could but I see no reason to question their goals or motives.

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        For a lot of FLOSS projects, it’s common to keep the initial team small, so a product can be delivered fast, and gets opened up later.

        It’s to solve the “too many cooks” and prevent bikeshedding.

        A lot of corpo espionage is there solely to tank potential competitors, which include FLOSS projects.