He was asked if he would open source the project but from what I can tell he said no. It's not like it was obligatory for him to do that anyways, but when you read some of the comments in the other thread, it feels like almost a demand coming from the community rather than an ask.
I was talking more about the UI specifications and not about open sourcing the entire app. In any case it seems I was wrong because I could find nothing relating to Christian sharing his code or specification relating to apollo's UI.
This makes me respect @aeharding@lemmy.world even more because he was able to create an app pretty similar to Apollo(UI wise) by writing everything from scratch
The community shouldn't have had to do that. He should have continued being a gentleman and pass the torch. He did the silly, whiny thing and said "If i can have my cake nobody else gets it to". I will never buy another app eith his name on it, broke muh heart :(
He doesn't like Voyager for good reason though; the app basically one-for-one copied what he had built for reddit but pointed it at Lemmy instead. If somebody took something I had developed and changed very little from the outside, I would be upset too.
I think he's totally within reason to dislike what is essentially a ripoff of his intellectual property. That being said, I'd be surprised if he decides to make the developers have repercussions for following his design so closely.
The design among all the Lemmy apps is essentially the same IMO. Far left you have your subscribed, bottom is the various sections.. there’s not that much to it really.