TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18, 2024

Hmm... So, requiring a sandbox to run @usebottles is considered evil and proprietary software, but patching it to remove the donate button without updating support links is considered fine? Uh huh...

Edit: Please keep in mind that this was not a decision made by the entire openSUSE community. This is addressed to the people who authored and accepted the patch.

Update: The patch is no longer being applied.

main: Exit on non-sandboxed environments by TheEvilSkeleton · Pull Request #3583 · bottlesdevs/Bottles

Description For context: https://usebottles.com/posts/2022-06-07-an-open-letter/ and #2345 It's been 2 years, yet we've seen several cases of distributions fucking up Bottles one way or ano...

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Show threadTheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18, 2024
Real talk, if you're patching software to make it "work" in your distro, I suppose that's fair, but removing the donate button is on a whole new low
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@TheEvilSkeleton KDE apps all have a donate button under the Help menu and OpenSUSE doesn't remove those. I can't see how this was fueled by anything but pure spite. If they think a FOSS app doesn't even deserve to have a donate button why do they package it in the first place?
Dec 19, 2024 at 12:59amWeb