Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tensor on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:29PM (#50408655)

Correct. This is a class of products that I really would rather not go commercial for. It's extremely difficult to change after the fact so from a business standpoint it puts us in a place where if the vendor decides to start cranking prices or they sell their business and the new owner does, then we are in a really difficult position.

It's not actually about paying money or not, I've signed up for many a patreon or what not to support open source projects I use. I fully believe in paying people for software. But for core things like this I do prefer MIT/APACHE.

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by ogoffart on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:14PM (#50417321)

But Slint is open source and you can for it if we were to change the license, and the royalty free license is free of charge.

Even MIT/Apache software can change license and start charging, as we've seen in the past with some project.

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Re:Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM by tensor on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:31PM (#50420274)

My app is proprietary though, so I can't use the royalty free license. I've definitely licensed commercial software before. For example, I've licensed OCR software for many years.

The difference to me is that with OCR I can change it out with acceptable effort in the case that the vendor does something that we can't agree to. But it's just too hard to swap out a UI library. That's a major rewrite. It's too risky, to the point I'd rather spend resources bringing an MIT/APACHE UI kit up to my needs than risk being locked in with a vendor.

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