Early access to the beta program for #Mastodon's official #Android app is now available for our Patreon supporters:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/64413994
I don’t see any problems with it at this point. After all, the development of an app also costs time and effort. And if you consider that it is just for the early access and not the finished product, there is nothing wrong with it.
There’s one small problem I see here, though. They are restricting their beta testers to an automatically less-diverse group of people meaning that they’re not getting full possible feedback.
That being said, their project, their rules and I support whatever they want to do with their code.
I don’t see any problems with it at this point. After all, the development of an app also costs time and effort. And if you consider that it is just for the early access and not the finished product, there is nothing wrong with it.
Honestly yeah, if this type of paid early access helps fund their development, I can’t really fault them.
There’s one small problem I see here, though. They are restricting their beta testers to an automatically less-diverse group of people meaning that they’re not getting full possible feedback.
That being said, their project, their rules and I support whatever they want to do with their code.
Sure, just quit calling it free and open source software
So in your mind “free and open source” means every two-bit developer brain fart made before a release also needs to be free and open source?
I’m at the point of discovering why software at large tends to be such utter shite.