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    [–] Flipper@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

    The Problem with open source is, it relies on self exploitation. Most OS Dev don't get paid, so they've got to work another jib full time. This leads to a lot of burned out devs from their project and that is a real problem.

    Before a project becomes self sufficient on donationa, it needs to become really big. Most projects simply never reach that scale.

    [–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    Non-profit means the corporation isn't set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.

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    [–] Clbull@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    As someone who recently started getting into digital art, I'm genuinely shocked at how good Krita is.

    This is a raster graphics editor that could could potentially rival the likes of Photoshop, Affinity Photo and Paint Shop Pro in terms of features. GIMP by comparison is dogshit.

    [–] Luci@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

    OpenTTD is the pinnacle of open source software. They should have stopped there

    [–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    "Every machine has had the same history β€” a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.

    Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle β€” all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.

    By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say β€” This is mine, not yours?"

    -Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

    [–] Muffi@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

    I love that OpenTTD made the list

    [–] Muffi@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I stand by blender being the absolute best piece of software I have ever used.

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    [–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 month ago

    When money comes in the picture, then profit is more important than the product, and this people really loved the product they are doing, if they have enough money to live comfortably they get to keep control of something they care and love.

    [–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

    Tux, FF and VLC have been dailies in my life for over a decade. Many MANY thanks to them, and to ALL those pipple.

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