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by scoot 1691 days ago
Hi, congrats on the app. I was curious about one thing in the article - why would the city pay to license the app when it is open source? Do you anticipate that this would be cheaper for them than them paying one of their overpriced contractors to build and publish an "official" version, given how much they spent on a CRUD app?
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urvader 1691 days ago
Thanks!

Well we have already made the source code open and free and also encouraged the city to release an app with our source code as base. They weren’t interested in that. They would rather license the app, support and maintenance to us. We have quoted a fixed sum per month for that service and we plan to use that money to reimburse everyone sending PR:s we merge.

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KajMagnus 1691 days ago
> We have quoted a fixed sum per month for that service and we plan to use that money to reimburse everyone sending PR:s we merge

How interesting :- ) I wonder how you'll distribute the thanks-for-the-feature (PR) money — e.g. per PR, or per lines (hmm I guess not) or maybe some impact / "severity" system like for bug bounties? (but this time "feature bounties")

(From Sweden me too. How nice that you built the app and that apparently things seem to end in a good way :- ) I felt a bit upset when reading the article)

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krageon 1690 days ago
If you view your idealised version of the app as "the app" and everywhere it doesn't currently match reality as a bug, you can just use a bug bounty system for it and it will make intuitive sense for everyone :)
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KajMagnus 1690 days ago
When writing the first line in a new project,

one in an instant adds thousands of bugs :- )

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scoot 1691 days ago
Sounds like a positive step forward, despite the grief they put you through! Ultimately it seems like democracy winning out, although sad to see the very institution that should support and endorse it acting as a gatekeeper.
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edenstrom 1691 days ago
Swede here. This is just a guess, but I think it's the illusion of control. Too much negative press about the conflict, and this is their attempt at controlling the narrative and "taking responsibility". We'll see what the future holds.
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