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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@TheEvilSkeleton @usebottles "The only way to achieve the goal of this PR is changing license to proprietary" is such an absolutist statement. This is like people who refuse anything less than perfectly typed code with guards on every single function. Mitigating risk doesn't mean absolutely preventing it. If your goal is to improve the experience for the majority of your target audience, that PR did its job. That reaction is incredibly childish.
Dec 19, 2024 at 11:27pmWeb