Tauri means we can reuse a lot of the Rust we already have, easily do the systems stuff we need, and have something light + fast. Elixir has been awesome and makes a realtime sync backend easier
Not currently open source while it's under heavy early development, we will be opening up the desktop app later on
This leaves room for stuff like the Functional Software License.
(nb: system web views are very inconsistent, so they're considering adding a Chromium renderer, which will bring everything full circle)
we've found they're generally ok between mac/windows, with some issues on Linux. Nothing insurmountable, however.
Anything super complex (terminals, charts) we can render with canvas or webgl anyway
Software freedoms exist as a concept for a reason, not just a bullet point to get people to click a download link that doesn’t even include source anyway.
I call such projects “open source cosplay”. It’s an outfit you put on for conferences, then take off when back at the office working on the nonfree valuable parts.
The irony of this purist mindset is that it's actually very corporatist, big-tech, and proprietary in its implications. If open source devs are discouraged by the culture from building products and making a living independently, it means that the only people who can devote significant time to open source are employees of established companies (who themselves often sell closed source proprietary products) and people who are wealthy enough to work for free. Is that the world you want?
Why would I waste my time releasing any of my projects for free when people will attack me and call me a poser anyway
Might as well charge people money, who by the way will actually be grateful to do so, that try to keep up with the open source community's purity treadmill
It’s ok if you don’t believe in software freedoms, but you shouldn’t pretend to be someone who does by releasing some software that respects users’ software freedoms. It’s deceptive.
Either you care about software freedoms, or you don’t. If you don’t, why are you releasing any software under free software licenses? If you do, why are you releasing any nonfree software?
Also, do you have a single bit of backing data to suggest that your first sentence is true? I don’t believe that it is. It seems to me there is more free software than ever before.
As long as the different parts are clearly marked/indicated as such, why would you impose such a ridiculous standard? In your world, if a company makes 99% of their software GPL, and then releases some proprietary tool, they're suddenly being deceptive? Would you prefer to just lose the 99%?
In the example case, they plainly do not, otherwise they would not subject their users to nonfree software.
I don’t think wishing vendors to be honest is a ridiculous standard.
IMHO the real reason is that the threat of hostile/competing forks has gone up. It used to be gauche at best, evil at worst, to take somebody's open source code and compete with them, but increasingly the landscape is changing. I think that's the real problem, and IMHO the answer to that is the AGPL, not to go proprietary.