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But interesting that with no time pressure, OSS does not miss lots of features of commercial products. Often their are even ahead.
by f1shy 2y ago
But interesting that with no time pressure, OSS does not miss lots of features of commercial products. Often their are even ahead.
- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]
- qznc 2y agoI disagree. OSS is only ahead if there is no money in it, like new programming languages. Whenever it is profitable, OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time. OSS is usually reinventing the wheel free from commercial pressures (Linux, GNU, Apache). Or they are previous commercial products (Firefox, LibreOffice, Kubernetes, Bazel).
- Thorrez 2y ago>Whenever it is profitable, OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time. Windows is profitable, but Linux is competing well on servers.
- sillywalk 2y ago> OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time. Many OSS projects have professionals working full time on them.
- LtWorf 2y agoCan you explain why apple, google and microsoft all use a fork of a browser made by KDE?
- qznc 2y agoThey use a fork of a browser engine and there is no money in building a browser engine. The money is in building a browser around the engine because there you can inject tracking and try to make your product unique.
- aAaaArrRgH 2y agoNot when it comes to video/image/vector editing. DaVinci Resolve, Adobe and Affinity are still miles ahead of FOSS creativity tools like The GIMP.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoTry Krita, Darktable, Scribus and Blender. You're comparing household name with household name. Commercial software has a marketing budget, but free software spreads more by word-of-mouth (or association with a big and processional organisation like GNU), so that's an apples-to-oranges comparison. GIMP isn't very good, as free software image editors go: Script-Fu, plugins, or UI familiarity are basically the only reasons to choose it these days.
- qznc 2y agoIs there any feature in Krita, Darktable, Scribus, or Blender, which Adobe products do not have? It certainly is the case the other way round.
- spookie 2y agoI'm curious as to which ones they do not have compared to Adobe products. The only one I can think of is proper material layer painting in Blender, you can get there with addons but haven't found one that's as good. Genuinely the only thing that I miss, and I do this full time.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoDarktable has some features that RawTherapee doesn't, and vice versa. I imagine that some of that stuff isn't in the Adobe software. (I've heard that recent versions of Lightroom have removed local file management support, which both these programs still have – though don't quote me on that.) Krita has a lot that Photoshop doesn't: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/introduction_from_other_software/introduction_from_photoshop.html#what-krita-has-over-photoshop https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/introduction_from_othe... .
- philistine 2y agoYou obviously haven’t compared GUIs, the most hodgepodge mix of we have that feature! in a sea of confusion and disrespect for interface standards.