You gave this exact same answer to me in your Discord a year ago. If nothing sketchy is going on why not just open source the thing?
At a minimum you should remove the banner at the bottom of the page claiming it's open source.
At a minimum you should remove the banner at the bottom of the page claiming it's open source.
We appreciate your interest, but we never gave an ETA. I do regret having made the intention public, though.
> At a minimum you should remove the banner at the bottom of the page claiming it's open source.
That’s a good point. As I wrote in another comment below: I’ve now updated the website template not to show the image with the slogan on this page. Thanks for the feedback.
(For reference, I work as a software engineer and am also the author of a popular open source project which I give away for free and have put thousands of hours into.)
I don't think the original comment meant that it is sketchy to make a living out of software. I think the issue is the posturing as open source, having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y and even sharing it on HackerNews right after the issues with closed source by Postman too. Feels like an "open source alternative", but not really, hence the sketchy accusation.
But this is just how I read it.
It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here:
Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massive twist because they have an Electron wrapper that they haven't open sourced is mystifying.
I haven't studied the codebase but I highly doubt they are going to have a separate client implementation for the Electron product vs the CLI! They're just trying to create a nice Electron client, in addition to their well-known CLI, and start a business around it aren't they?
As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.
Having it on GitHub under the same organization as our other projects that already are open-source is convenient for both us and our users — https://github.com/httpie.
> and even sharing it on HackerNews right after the issues with closed source by Postman too. Feels like an "open source alternative", but not really, hence the sketchy accusation.
The person who shared it is not related to HTTPie.
Given the quality of the discourse here, I almost wish they did not! ;-)