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threecheese 18 hours ago [-]
This isn’t the controversy the title suggests. Taking the dev at their word, the measures are pretty reasonable; they asked for help maintaining, nobody stepped up, and so it needs funding somehow. You only need a license to access a release binary, and a paid license to access the Pro binary. Source code is open, compile it yourself to avoid. Some features went into the Paid tier: well, something had to. Commenters are mostly supportive.
The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
dang 12 hours ago [-]
Submitted title was "AltTab.app makes free features paid, drops old releases". We've reverted it now.
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
MarsIronPI 17 hours ago [-]
Agreed. I was about to get up in arms about license violations and rugpulls, but this is neither. The code is still free and open source, just the builds are up for sale. This is literally a business model encouraged by the FSF. I hope the paid tier is successful and we see more projects adopt this approach when the time comes to pay the bills.
rdmuser 17 hours ago [-]
The dev even offers free pro licenses to those who can't afford them:
"I shall add that if for some unfortunate reason you're not able to afford a license, just email me and i shall offer you one"
Akronymus 14 hours ago [-]
> This isn’t the controversy the title suggests.
Yeah, I too am so sick of ragebait titles on HN by now, that my bar for contacting the HN mod team has become very low.
> The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
I'd argue that it isn't really dropped as all previous releases still seem to be accesible via the tags on the repo. You "just" have to compile it yourself. If the git history were dropped too, that'd be a different story.
rrvsh 15 hours ago [-]
This is a horrible title. The developer has kept the entire source code open and you can build from source to get all paid features, and offers a free 14 day trial for all new users. The core functionality of Alt Tab to switch windows is staying free.
As a current free-tier user, this price & transition plan seems completely reasonable. I'll upgrade when the nudge comes. I've got at least that much utility from it so far.
Very glad this isn't a subscription.
zenethian 17 hours ago [-]
This app has been in my kit for many years now and I will buy a license the very day it goes on sale.
techknight 16 hours ago [-]
Pretty reasonable. Happy to pay for this, I can't stand using Macos without it.
com2kid 9 hours ago [-]
I already paid for contexts because I didn't know this existed.
Contexts does some extra things I love (type to switch to a window) so it is worth the price IMHO.
zuzululu 17 hours ago [-]
but anyone can take this code, build any features you want on top of it without paying the author.
The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
"I shall add that if for some unfortunate reason you're not able to afford a license, just email me and i shall offer you one"
Yeah, I too am so sick of ragebait titles on HN by now, that my bar for contacting the HN mod team has become very low.
> The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
I'd argue that it isn't really dropped as all previous releases still seem to be accesible via the tags on the repo. You "just" have to compile it yourself. If the git history were dropped too, that'd be a different story.
Contexts does some extra things I love (type to switch to a window) so it is worth the price IMHO.