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There are excellent projects like Blender which proves that high quality FOSS products can be done.
by MaKey 3y ago
There are excellent projects like Blender which proves that high quality FOSS products can be done.
- opportune 3y agoCheck out some of the names on fund.blender.org I think a lot of people have this misconception that FOSS is produced by volunteers working for no pay. I mean, they don’t literally think that, but they bucket FOSS produced by amateurs and volunteers with FOSS produced by companies with massive R&D budgets. The only thing those software have in common is that they are free to use and modify as-is. In some cases, FOSS is literally just something a company made to meet their needs (in a way that mostly generalized it) and then decided “hey this would be cool to donate as FOSS.” Blender and Linux are also basically paid software, they are just funded by the many corporations who rely on them. You can’t compare that to abandonware some guy made in his free time or volunteer-produced software that competes against software funded to the tune of billions of dollars per year.