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[-] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 171 points 1 month ago

It's funny because apps like Blender and Krita are actually competitive to proprietary software.

[-] CanadaPlus 91 points 1 month ago

And Linux/BSD are so good proprietary developers rip them off to whatever degree legally permissible.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 47 points 1 month ago

Microsoft servers also use linux

[-] doktormerlin@feddit.org 53 points 1 month ago

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

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

And also maya sucks.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc...

Proprietary OS's like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 98 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 month ago

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 month ago

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

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Wait wait wait... RiF ain't dead?!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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!

This guide should help

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Can you log in yet? Last time I did this I couldn't log into an account, only browse.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I'm logged in, so might be worth a try

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[-] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] stetech@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Same for Apollo and now Voyager. Probably the best-designed and -implemented apps I’ve ever used.

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

Wait RIF was reanimated? In what way?

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[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

"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"

[-] enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 weeks ago

That's why the no warranty clause is by far the most important in any license granting access to the public

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[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 37 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

It's hilarious that you think that proprietary software is actually better.

[-] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago
[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago

Photo and Video editing is actually pretty good, since the backends (magick/ffmpeg) are open source

[-] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago

I've recently exchanged Davinci Resolve for Kdenlive on my pc, and have been extremely pleased with it.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If only Autodesk didn't exist, then yeah

[-] CanadaPlus 21 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

I have heard that friendica is similar to facebook

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[-] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago

i want to boil people like this alive

in minecraft of course

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago
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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Snap! I forgot about the rename news already… forgettable new name :)

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[-] emmie@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago

“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.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Are most open-source software developed by hobbyists?

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 32 points 1 month ago

well, most as in numerically, technically yes :D

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

[-] entropicdrift 15 points 1 month ago

Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

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[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

firefox is squarely in the "co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified"

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[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

There is a very large corpus of FLOSS software out there serving everything from individual itches to whole industries. Any project that is important to someone's bottom line is likely to have paid developers working on it but often alongside hobbyists.

The project I predominately work on is about 90% paid developers but from lots of different companies and organisations. Practically though the developers don't care about the affiliation of the other developers they work with but the ideas and patches they bring to the project.

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[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

Because it can't be turned into a service

[-] sunnie@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Star designers and engineers don't do Open Source? 🥺

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

.. that depends on this FOSS app.

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