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muxdervishon An Open Call to Flipper Devices: Problems with Flipper and How They Can Improve

Not sure why they think they can act this way and get away with it

muxdervishon An Open Call to Flipper Devices: Problems with Flipper and How They Can Improve

Seems their behavior is a bit off putting for anyone looking to work with them. Their social media interactions also show them acting out of line.

muxdervishon Flipper One – we need your help

collabora is a vendor not a community

muxdervishon Flipper One – we need your help

In a classic Flipper Devices move, they offload once again work to the community. This time, its even the community trying to parse the post to begin with. They're just never there to give "back" and all work is always one direction: towards them. Its bad form to make your own community feel less like "community" and more like "free labor" to exploit.

muxdervishon Flipper One – we need your help

> We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.

Except they themselves were never around to "help" their own community, instead opting to tear down creators of competitor devices and influencers who they did not like instead of trying to work with anyone. Many 3rd party board makers and app contributors could have been spotlighted, but it was all ignored over the years. Now they just want to once again extract free labor.