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
Show threadSander van KasteelDec 18, 2024
@TheEvilSkeleton WTF.... I expected better from SUSE.
Show threadPhil M0OFXDec 19, 2024
@me @TheEvilSkeleton I gave up expecting anything good from SuSE when one of their employees tried to forcibly take over a driver I maintain, by emailing the category maintainers of various distros to declare he was "taking over", cc'ing one of my oldest email addresses from the git log (not the current one on my website).
That guy works at RedHat now, I notice from Linkedin...
Show threadkawazoe
@philpem @me @TheEvilSkeleton sounds like he should work for WordPress <_<
Dec 19, 2024 at 11:17pmWeb
Show threadPhil M0OFXDec 20, 2024
@kawazoe @me @TheEvilSkeleton savage, but not wrong