Bradley M. Kuhn
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@evan

Thanks! 鈽猴笍

I just realized my Parodox is 10 years old in 7 months!

https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2016/02/19/kuhns-paradox.html

I wish the last 10 years had proved it wrong.

I probably should have also predicted that most FOSS professionals of 2016 would work mostly on proprietary software by 2026. I thought it around the same time and was too afraid to put it in writing since it was so scary. But that came true too.

@downey
Alex
@SpookyDoom@mastodon.gamedev.place  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@evan @downey @bkuhn not entirely true since proprietary software vendors can't use GPL code for example. Otherwise they have to make all of theirs GPL as well.
But it's very true that many Open Source projects suffer from a lack of ease of use, unfortunately. And from the totally false stigmata that closed source is somehow better.

I will gladly throw my money at any software company that runs their business as open source like Blender or Godot, though. DRM and sunsetting software is the worst
Ivan Carapovic
@Chapz@mastodon.online  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@downey @bkuhn

Understandable, the gap between open source software and endusers is massive. You can't download it from a webpage, it needs to be from GitHub. You can't double click it to run it, you need to do an advanced rain dance to run it. Once it runs, you find it extremely difficult to use because the UI and UX is really poor.

Proprietary companies just slap those comfort and usability features onto existing open source code and call it a day.
James Just James
@purpleidea@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 5 days ago
@downey @bkuhn I think the two statements are true, but it's not a paradox. The reason is because proprietary vendors are writing more code at a greater rate than Free Software writers do.

When they use permissively licensed libraries, it basically accelerates the proprietary software, thus compounding the problem.

Lastly, the Free Software world keeps forgetting the most important point: You don't win by being more free, you win by being better. Start writing better software.