It's funny because apps like Blender and Krita are actually competitive to proprietary software.
And Linux/BSD are so good proprietary developers rip them off to whatever degree legally permissible.
Microsoft servers also use linux
Blender had a reeeeaaally long way though, I remember a time where Blender was quite big already but Maya just was miles ahead in terms of usability. Nowadays they are not only even, Blender is probably used more often since it's not only free but more people know how to use it than Maya
And also maya sucks.
And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc...
Proprietary OS's like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.
Dia and gimp are ok, but they’re still quite behind the curve. I love floss and wouldn’t use the closed alternatives, but we got to know where we stand.
There are proprietary VCS?
git was created because a proprietary VCS was being a dick
There were many.
Windows has WinGet now, which is a built in package manager. It might not be as good as most linux distro package managers, but it does exist.
Read "The Mythical Man-Month".
Basically, a team of 5-8 motivated developers can create high quality, medium complexity software extremely fast.
But if the project is just a little too complex for one team of devs and you need more people, then you'll need a lot more people. And a lot more time.
Cause the more people you add to the project, the more overhead you have. Suddenly you need to pull devs off coding to bring new hires up to speed. You need to write documentation on coding style guidelines, hold meetings, maintain your infrastructure, negotiate with hardware suppliers, have someone fix the server room's door locks, schedule job interviews, etc. etc.
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
Counterpoint: 'The Brooks's Law analysis (and the resulting fear of large numbers in development groups) rests on a hidden assummption: that the communications structure of the project is necessarily a complete graph, that everybody talks to everybody else. But on open-source projects, the halo developers work on what are in effect separable parallel subtasks and interact with each other very little; code changes and bug reports stream through the core group, and only within that small core group do we pay the full Brooksian overhead.'
Source: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s05.html
It absolutely fucking BAFFLES me that Brooks' Law isn't known by every software manager on the planet.
I've quoted it so many times at work, even in engineering focused teams in at least two big tech companies. It's not a concrete fact, but it explains why so many teams are hilariously shit at delivering software.
I love this meme because every app on my phone designed by a company worth more than a million dollars fucking sucks, and the best app on my phone is RIF, an app designed by a single developer, and reanimated into a lich by a team of programmers for free
Wait wait wait... RiF ain't dead?!
I would say it's undead. Like a Lich. The fine folks at revanced.app have done an amazing job reanimating it. It's just as good as it was last June!
Can you log in yet? Last time I did this I couldn't log into an account, only browse.
You need to patch it with the revanced manager.
Then you need to create an apikey on reddit for developing your own app.
In which you agree not to use it for sth. Like rif....
However with that apikey you can then login and use rif.
"Dear floss4life,
Our developers have encountered an issue while using the open source framework you published on github. We have lost as many as 400 user accounts. The estimated cost of this error is $6800.
This is unacceptable. Be a professional and fix it immediately.
Chad Elkowitz, MBA, Gruvbert and sons Finance Lt"
That's why the no warranty clause is by far the most important in any license granting access to the public
And it’s also why many companies refuse to use open software. It baffles me that no insurance company saw this as a market opportunity to sell open source software insurance.
I've actually found a lot of the smaller foss tools I use are better than their proprietary counterparts because of the design philosophy and that people don't cut as many corners on passion projects as when they're on a deadline
For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.
I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.
Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that's someone else's problem apparently.
The reason this bothers me so much is how hard it makes it to get a job
I've seen people in other companies getting paid significantly more than me who just have zero clue what they're doing
It's hilarious that you think that proprietary software is actually better.
CAD Software?
Add to that photo editing (as much as GIMP is great...). I would guess DAW and video editing would fall under that category, too...and good luck finding many AAA open source games.
Photo and Video editing is actually pretty good, since the backends (magick/ffmpeg) are open source
I've recently exchanged Davinci Resolve for Kdenlive on my pc, and have been extremely pleased with it.
If only Autodesk didn't exist, then yeah
Well, sometimes it happens. Lemmy was semi-broken during the APIocalypse, and there still isn't such a thing as a FOSS Facebook, or search engine backend for that matter.
I have heard that friendica is similar to facebook
Can you get (almost) every single person on there? Until not facebook is unreplaceable.
i want to boil people like this alive
in minecraft of course
Minetest*
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”
80/20
I live by this rule, it made me gain so much credibility and money from people who don’t know any better. 80/20 <3
20 percent of work nets you 80 percent of result (except no one knows what I did isn’t 100 percent) bam 4/5 of time saved. Everyone is happy and if something doesn’t work we can just blame it on client
I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I've gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.
taps forehead
the issue with this argument is that i don't care about who made the app when it doesn't work. that's why i still have a chromium based secondary browser, it doesn't matter that it's the work of a billion dollar company trying to get a monopoly when the website i'm on is broken. yes, the blame is on who made the website, not firefox. i still need to be able to use it somehow
Because it can't be turned into a service
“All-star” makes me worried there’s some hidden society of super competent developers remaining at the big software corps that we somehow never noticed.
Star designers and engineers don't do Open Source? 🥺
.. that depends on this FOSS app.
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