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Wow!! I've only been waiting for this for 15 years!

by loudandskittish 4y ago

popcalc 4y ago
- colordrops 4y ago
  Everyone here already knows that. I've got a list of about 800 things I'd love to see in various packages. Should I hire a team to work on them?
  - xvilka 4y ago
    You can[1]. [1] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-08-23-how-does-our-consultancy-work/ https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-08-23-how-does-our-consultan...
    - colordrops 4y ago
      I was being facetious - I'm sure everyone is also aware that you could hire devs to code for you. But not to dismiss your point, it is interesting that companies exist purely for the purpose of working on arbitrary free software requests.
  - cowtools 4y ago
    Yes. This is a major benefit of free software- you can hire contractors to add whatever feature you need.
    - thrown_22 4y ago
      But not in the main trunk. Way back when in the 00s I did some triage to what it would take for adding nondestructive editing. It was basically a complete rewrite of the whole code base. Given that it's 20 years later and it's still not in the main trunk I'd trying to fix gimp is the lost cost falicy
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- Hydraulix989 4y ago
  At many users' hourly rates, it's cheaper to just buy Photoshop. OSS is only successful with a real business model.
  - kome 4y ago
    With this mentality, FOSS wouldn't even exist. But it does, and modern computing is based on it. So, your mentality might have some problems.
    - frankchn 4y ago
      You can get paid to work on FOSS though. Google, Intel, etc… employees contributes to lots of FOSS as part of their jobs.
    - Hydraulix989 4y ago
      Do explain more. My mentality is that FOSS exists and has thrived through viable business models. Very few people just do charitable OSS work without deriving any benefits from it. Those that do, don't end up lasting very long: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framework_maintainer_quits/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framew... https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151924/http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151924/http://apcmag.com...
  - ekianjo 4y ago
    its the wrong way to look at it. when you implement things in FOSS a lot more people have access to that feature.
  - nine_k 4y ago
    You don't usually personally contribute major things to OSS because it's a shrewd business move, but because you want it to exist, you want to share, and you reasonably enjoy the process. (Corporations pouring paid hours into Linux, Blender, Postgres, etc are a different case.)
    - 4y ago

Wow!! I've only been waiting for this for 15 years!

popcalc 4y ago

colordrops 4y ago
Everyone here already knows that. I've got a list of about 800 things I'd love to see in various packages. Should I hire a team to work on them?
- xvilka 4y ago
  You can[1]. [1] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-08-23-how-does-our-consultancy-work/ https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-08-23-how-does-our-consultan...
  - colordrops 4y ago
    I was being facetious - I'm sure everyone is also aware that you could hire devs to code for you. But not to dismiss your point, it is interesting that companies exist purely for the purpose of working on arbitrary free software requests.
- cowtools 4y ago
  Yes. This is a major benefit of free software- you can hire contractors to add whatever feature you need.
  - thrown_22 4y ago
    But not in the main trunk. Way back when in the 00s I did some triage to what it would take for adding nondestructive editing. It was basically a complete rewrite of the whole code base. Given that it's 20 years later and it's still not in the main trunk I'd trying to fix gimp is the lost cost falicy
    - deleted 4y ago
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Hydraulix989 4y ago
At many users' hourly rates, it's cheaper to just buy Photoshop. OSS is only successful with a real business model.
- kome 4y ago
  With this mentality, FOSS wouldn't even exist. But it does, and modern computing is based on it. So, your mentality might have some problems.
  - frankchn 4y ago
    You can get paid to work on FOSS though. Google, Intel, etc… employees contributes to lots of FOSS as part of their jobs.
  - Hydraulix989 4y ago
    Do explain more. My mentality is that FOSS exists and has thrived through viable business models. Very few people just do charitable OSS work without deriving any benefits from it. Those that do, don't end up lasting very long: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framework_maintainer_quits/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framew... https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151924/http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20110707151924/http://apcmag.com...
- ekianjo 4y ago
  its the wrong way to look at it. when you implement things in FOSS a lot more people have access to that feature.
- nine_k 4y ago
  You don't usually personally contribute major things to OSS because it's a shrewd business move, but because you want it to exist, you want to share, and you reasonably enjoy the process. (Corporations pouring paid hours into Linux, Blender, Postgres, etc are a different case.)
  - 4y ago