Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps

It's not like he shut down someone else's work. He stopped working on his own pet project. There's nothing stopping you from picking it up and working on it. It's publicly available. Insulting him seems juvenile and entitled. It's not his job to supply people with this (literally, he's not being paid for it). Even if you think he took a payout to stop working on it, or he was bullied into stopping (no support for either of these positions) it's ok for an 18 year old to be concerned about threats from a company and it's ok for them to take a payout for something they worked on. Again, no evidence for either, but neither of those scenarios would make it appropriate to insult him.

Here, feel free to fork it: https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

The headline is terribly written click-bait that doesn't have much to do with the reality of the situation. This is just another case of an open source dev backing off of a project because they've busy with life.

Now, this is a very rude and ignorant comment. Did you even read the article? The reasons behind it are quite clear, while not being obvious from the user perspective. Not everything must or can be free (but I think I see where the sentiment against companies and corporations comes, and I share it: enshittification is all the rage, but not actually everywhere)

Said paid app is CrossOver, which is pretty great actually. CrossOver contributes all modifications back to Wine while CrossOver the product is just a proprietary set of per-app environmental configurations.

i see bourbon in our future

for anyone too lazy to read the article

Um, well considering the paid app mentioned in the article is CrossOver not wine, ig that includes you too lol (though, CrossOver does contribute back to Wine, still can't trust them long term because profit....)