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I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Sunrise team for the incredible work you've put into the app! You've made my calendar experience very enjoyable and I know that
by Danilka 10y ago
I'd like to say THANK YOU to the Sunrise team for the incredible work you've put into the app! You've made my calendar experience very enjoyable and I know that you got a proper reward for that as part of the acquisition.
It's great that there are people like you, working on software these days.
- Mithaldu 10y agoThey don't deserve any thanks for remorselessly fucking over their users.
- untog 10y agoTheir users don't deserve anything as they were enjoying the use of a free product. They've given everyone a good amount of notice to move on.
- Mithaldu 10y agoWithout their users they wouldn't have gotten this nice cushy acquihire.
- untog 10y agoSo, everybody wins. The users got a free product for a few years, Sunrise got acquihired.
- Mithaldu 10y ago"Everybody wins" would involve everyone walking away with equal or more than they had at the time of parting, which could be done by opening the source of the product instead of letting it die of bitrot.
- untog 10y agoSunrise walked away with an acquihire, users walked away with several years of free service of an app they liked. I get what you're saying here, but the Sunrise team owe their users nothing.
- Mithaldu 10y agoThey owed them the honesty of saying at the start: "We never intend to make this an actual product. This is only here to get us attention and hired. If you use this, be aware we'll kill it as soon as anyone hires us."
- untog 10y agoBut who's to say that's what they intended at the start? They may well have entirely expected to make it a successful startup, only to find themselves unable to make the profit required to do so, so they got acquihired. If you wanted to use an app with open source and a permanent future you should have installed an open source app. Installing a closed source app created by a business and depending on them open sourcing it when the business closes is folly.
- Mithaldu 10y agoI don't even use it and keep away from software like this. I just recognize the morality involved. But hey, thanks for going the expected route. :)
- pavel_lishin 10y ago> and keep away from software like this Software like what?
- Mithaldu 10y agoSoftware made by people who have no obvious plan for revenue and have not demonstrated a desire to help people. Literally the first question i ask about most things i use is: What's your path to liquidity? If the answer to that is a shrug, then staying away is a good bet.