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I hadn’t heard about Datastar until this brouhaha started, but having read everything, I’ve come to the conclusion that many people are entitled primadonnas. I
by sgarland 1y ago
I hadn’t heard about Datastar until this brouhaha started, but having read everything, I’ve come to the conclusion that many people are entitled primadonnas.
I really do not understand the outrage. Nothing has been taken away, it hasn’t been relicensed, etc. I saw someone complaining that extracting the commit prior to the change was “an arcane git command.” Are you serious? If you can’t figure out how to get the parent of a given commit, I have no idea how you stay employed in tech.
I applaud the library author for making some money while also not rug-pulling. I personally think the license should be more copyleft, but if anything, the fact that it isn’t should negate anyone’s complaints.
It’s almost as if there is a disturbingly large percentage of the community that has no idea how to code, doesn’t have the drive to learn - much less produce something original and market it - and just fakes it by vibe-coding on top of libraries and frameworks.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago> It’s almost as if there is a disturbingly large percentage of the community that has no idea how to code, doesn’t have the drive to learn - much less produce something original and market it - and just fakes it by vibe-coding on top of libraries and frameworks. Does seem that way.
- andersmurphy 1y agoI can't even imagine the drama if it was made free but GPL.
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- fwip 1y ago> “an arcane git command.” If you're speaking of a comment towards the top of the last thread on HN about it, that comment was a sarcastic one. If not, please ignore.
- yencabulator 1y ago> Nothing has been taken away, it hasn’t been relicensed, etc. Meanwhile, at https://data-star.dev/essays/greedy_developer https://data-star.dev/essays/greedy_developer > For v1, we moved a handful of convenience plugins into Datastar Pro. So it's yet another rugpull, and the project is now Open Core. No sympathy from me.
- sgarland 1y agoThey literally tell you to fork it, and also demonstrate how to recreate some features. I don’t know what else you think should happen.
- yencabulator 1y agoThey literally can't prevent people from forking it. That's what open source means. Same has been true of all the rugpulls we have seen.
- rovr138 1y agoFork it, revert the removed things, maintain it. --- From their own essay, the plugins are simple. They even give examples. They claim maintenance, sure. But they also claim the core API is stable and shouldn’t see changes. Which is it? ---- I talked about them getting paid above, that’s fine. The rug pull and then coming up with these arguments are the parts that don’t sit right with me.