His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. And that is FAR from "nothing"
And libpurple isn't even mentioned in the article, yet a ton of space is wasted on how he kept thinking about a "next great thing". What an asshole.
At least Pidgin folks openly say "we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple". Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?
There was something very right about Zed Shaw's rant regarding open source licenses.
His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. And that is FAR from "nothing"
And libpurple isn't even mentioned in the article, yet a ton of space is wasted on how he kept thinking about a "next great thing". What an asshole.
At least Pidgin folks openly say "we are GTK+ front-end to libpurple". Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?
There was something very right about Zed Shaw's rant regarding open source licenses.