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Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS) in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe that Streamlabs == OBS. On OBS git
by poopsmithe 5y ago
Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS) in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe that Streamlabs == OBS.
On OBS github, contributors asked SLOBS to stop doing that, and Streamlabs declined.
Streamer community outrage ensued via Twitter. Large exodus of SLOBS users to OBS. Streamlabs publicly apologized a few days later, and renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio.
- wizardcm 5y agoThey renamed it to Streamlabs Desktop. Streamlabs Studio is a separate (newer) product.
- uyt 5y ago>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name. Which would've been a huge shame to open source software. Glad stuff worked out.
- saynay 5y agoThere was a few other things that tied in to the anger. It turned out Streamlabs had released a series of products that each exactly mirrored the functionality of other popular projects, including in one case stealing the entire product page (including user reviews) and replacing the product name with the Streamlabs version. Just a long series of exceedingly blatant copying and theft.
- NylaTheWolf 5y agowait seriously? I knew they copied OBS but not other products!