Re:When free software isn't practically superior (2015)
by hertzrat on Thursday December 17, 2020 @06:15PM
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Imagine it’s a web or iOS or Android app. Imagine that you put 10,000 cards into supermemo.com and they took it down because of some legal dispute with another company. I have about 15k cards in anki for this reason: I’m not at a large risk of losing a significant investment if something randomly happens to the creator of the software
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Re:When free software isn't practically superior (2015)
by aidenn0 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:18PM
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If it's not self hosted, it doesn't matter if you have the source or not
Re:When free software isn't practically superior (2015)
by hertzrat on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:19AM
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Good point. You could still import your backups into a replacement after somebody else resumes the project. Many apps don’t even offer backups or export. Supermemo.com incidentally did not at the time I moved away from it years ago