Non-free/libre

The source code is not available to audit, improve, or redistribute. Thus, this application cannot be trusted in terms of security, and if the devs abandon it, it can't be maintained by others.

Sean Lang
Sean Lang
@slang
7 years ago

(this is a con, but slant has a retarded design that doesn't allow me to switch pros/cons or delete & resubmit)

Laura Kyle
Laura Kyle
@LauraNK
7 years ago
@slang 

If you leave a comment asking for something to be changed, we can often get to it in under 10 minutes.
Done :)

Stuart Kearney
Stuart Kearney
@stukearney
7 years ago
@slang 

If you have any other design things you'd like us to fix just let me know and I'll get on it. Also you can change your @username to slang via the edit in your profile if you like.

Sean Lang
Sean Lang
@slang
7 years ago
@stukearney 

Oh sweet! - I've been sitting on that username for awhile but didn't notice username edits had been implemented.

Actually, that pro/con switch was the only thing that really bothered me, because I've made that mistake at least 4 other times and couldn't fix it on my own. However, I would love to see "linked solutions" between questions. Such that I could submit a program like "GitLab" as a solution to a question, work on a really nice description/set of images/metadata, and then reuse that in a solution for a different question. Plus, it would make site-wide price or description updates really easy.

Also, it would be great if "licensing" were an attribute on solutions like price is. This doesn't need to be exact licensing data (like the full text of the EULA or the SPDX license code) - a simple breakdown between "Free/Libre" and "Non-Free" would be great. This is obviously separate from price, since Free software could be distributed at a cost (even if it usually isn't), and Non-Free software might be given away gratis.

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