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Re:Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown devel... by orhmeh09 on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:00AM (#40584890)
I think there are some open source macOS apps that provide code but sell binaries on the App Store, no?
Re:Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown devel... by Aurornis on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:52AM (#40585555)
Yes, but it was sold to an acquirer by the original author.

Making it open source would have interfered with the author’s profit goal. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make profit from your work and protect the source.

Likewise, you’re free to avoid software that isn’t open source. However, it’s useless to make these demands that someone should have open sourced their work when that clearly wasn’t in the best interests of their goals.

Re:Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown devel... by Hamuko on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:35AM (#40585308)
I know at least of Textual. Open source but you can buy a pre-built binary for $10. Compiling it yourself was fairly easy when I tried it out once though.

https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual