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nvllsvm / emby-unlocked

Emby with the premium Emby Premiere features unlocked.
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Motives #25

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

So what's the point of this now? The nag-screen's gone.

nvllsvm commented 6 years ago

I prefer running this patched version of Emby rather than the official. What started as an annoyance over a nagscreen grew into a major distrust as the Emby developers were often not very communicative regarding their intentions.

The upstream Docker images are no longer an option for me as the .NET Core release is not open source.

See MediaBrowser/Emby#3075

Edit: Regardless, emby-unlocked is easy enough for me to maintain as an AUR package and a Docker container. Ironically, the emby server package in the Arch Linux community repo is many versions old (last updated December 23 2017, version 3.2.60.0).

ghost commented 6 years ago

Okay, that's understandable.

But why continue to unlock the premium features? Surely you understand that starving the parent project of its funding will prove detrimental in the long run.

nvllsvm commented 6 years ago

emby-unlocked already exists, is maintainable, and has a stable build process. It does things better than the official release by not setting limitations on what is already there. If it causes the Emby project to suffer, then it would be only due to a failure to compete with the functionality emby-unlocked provides.

I just don't care how it impacts their project. By licensing their software and limitations under the GPL, they are telling me that anyone can do anything to the software within the GPL's parameters.

If they are suffering - compete with me by delivering something better.

ghost commented 6 years ago

If it causes the Emby project to suffer, then it would be only due to a failure to compete with the functionality emby-unlocked provides.

What functionality? It's their functionality, you're just cracking it. Don't give yourself too much credit dude

I just don't care how it impacts their project.

Glad we've got that point straight

If they are suffering - compete with me by delivering something better.

How can they? You'll just steal it as quickly as they put it out 😂

nvllsvm commented 6 years ago

What functionality? It's their functionality, you're just cracking it. Don't give yourself too much credit dude

Yes - they coded the functionality behind an artificial conditional statement. I removed it for a better user experience, that's all.

How can they?

Make premium features proprietary plugins or make a new plugin entirely.

You'll just steal it as quickly as they put it out joy

What I'm doing is not theft if they explicitly licensed this code to me and the rest of the world under the GPL. I have zero interest in modification of proprietary software.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Alright mate, you keep telling yourself that. Whatever makes you sleep at night.

Hippyjake commented 6 years ago

Users don't like how an open source project is going, they can make changes. "Crack" it, play with it and try to take over the world with it. It's open source. The devs did that. They also ignore the user base, begging for someone to fork it.

Not to mention :kissing_heart: they don't point you here. You must go out of your way to find it.

"But it's the $number on Google search." Well. The devs should listen and act when users make a nose.

Just my nonsensical take on things.

joshuaboniface commented 6 years ago

"The devs are suffering"? Boo hoo. They're the ones who added a nag screen to a Free and Open Source project in an attempt to extort $100 payments from users, ignored those of us who cared to speak up (and in my case, ignored repeated requests for simple features like LDAP for years, without which I'm never going to "pay" them), and supported a forum echo chamber of people who obviously have no clue how free software works (including yourself). They can get bent. That they finally changed their mind after increased preasure does nothing to redeem them and their toxic decisions to me. Frankly if I had any interest in developing C# apps I'd've fully forked the project, but I've got better things to do and just want to watch my movies in peace using free software.

hapylestat commented 5 years ago

many users here think that open source = free software, but it is wrong point of view. Not talking about emby, but in general.

While, most likely, this fork doesn't breaking original license, those who use it should understand that:

By summarizing all this - it is complete user choose what to use and which project to support

PS. As project is OSS, anyone can write his own "premium" plugin alternative, but seems .. nobody looking for easy path ))