No need for personal attacks. I am not trying to sell anything and have literally 0 vested interest in VVVV. It's unfair to label it "garbage" though. Your arg

No need for personal attacks. I am not trying to sell anything and have literally 0 vested interest in VVVV. It's unfair to label it "garbage" though. Your argument that companies are holding their clients "hostage" by not sharing their source code indicates that we fundamentally disagree over one of the core systems that makes an economy work. By your logic, everyone producing anything should reveal exactly how they do it. Even in a totally open source world we would not do this. Some methods are dangerous in the wrong hands. > SolarWinds? LastPass? Microsoft? Naming a few high profile security blunders does not negate the far greater consequences that open sourcing all code would have. > You are, for your branch. Ain't nobody got time for that. I just want to use software, not maintain it. I pay others to do that for me. > It's that "competition" thing you claim to love so much. Fragmentation does not automatically lead to competition. I would argue it actually makes a product weaker, because attentions are divided and it would have to compete with more consolidated efforts. > unexamined priors ... pure nonsense So no real counterargument here. > don't merge patches No time for that. > grants and crowdfunding These usually rely on the expectation of future profits or a unique product that delivers value. Sure, it would be wonderful if all software was supported by altruistic contributors, but again: most of us have to deal with that pesky reality I mentioned earlier.