News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Indian startup bubble is insane. Parent comment

Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane by yunohn on Sunday October 13, 2024 @06:19AM (#41826729)
> it's literally just an http client with a UI, better luck next time

This is the exact toxic dismissive attitude that leads to OSS software going the payment-gated route.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane by matrix87 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:33PM (#41831822)
isn't that the point of OSS software? vendor makes a bunch of user-hostile changes, people get pissed and fork it.

if they wanted to be hostile towards users, then OSS was a mistake

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Indian startup bubble is insane by yunohn on Monday October 14, 2024 @09:28AM (#41837354)
The reason we end up with user hostile changes, is because the dev user community is cannibalistically stingy. This cycle will continue forever, until people stop dismissing others work as “curl with a UI” or “curl with FTP” and refusing to pay for anything.
[ Parent | on HN ]