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Twitter, Slack, Discord, Youtube, Gmail, Google search, JetBrains software and all the other good daily drivers aren't open source. Games we play usually aren't
by zenlot 3y ago
Twitter, Slack, Discord, Youtube, Gmail, Google search, JetBrains software and all the other good daily drivers aren't open source. Games we play usually aren't opensource either. PS5 and Xbox aren't opensource, as well as Nintendo. As long as those tools provides you with some "free" version (doesn't matter if you're product) then it's perfectly fine. And it seems that with all the non opensource versions you get a better product overall. And I'd rather play the better game, use the better search and write in better editor, than go for opensource version, which source I would probably never read.
- mdaniel 3y ago> JetBrains software I think this falls into the "we know what you meant," but that's not systemically true of JetBrains; quite a bit of their stuff is Apache 2: https://github.com/orgs/JetBrains/repositories https://github.com/orgs/JetBrains/repositories They have done some underhanded shit with some of the plugins but via acqui-hires, not rug-pull-ing their repos from an open license, so I wouldn't lump them into the same category as closed source software, nor the vile behavior of Hashicorp, Sentry, or Sourcegraph