The biggest selling point of capitalism is innovation.
That’s why nothing was ever invented before capitalism.
Which makes some wonder how capitalism was invented.
But they are communists and should be shot for questioning the wisdom of the system.
What came first? The innovator or the capitalist??
"Every machine has had the same history — a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.
Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle — all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.
By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say — This is mine, not yours?"
-Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
firefox is debataable
Name a better open source browser built from the ground up that isn’t backed by big tech, I’ll wait.
there are none but that doesnt mean firefox is good dont settle because everything else is worse
Firefox is literally backed by big tech though?
Ladybird is on the horizon.
Also Firefox isn’t built from the ground up I don’t believe. It’s based on Gecko which iirc was based on KHTML. idk i can’t fully remember don’t take this as fact. i use firefox and prefer it to chomium based browsers but Mozilla has been making really weird moves lately around AI that I think is very unnecessary.
Chrome and Safari are built from forks of KHTML, WebKit, not Gecko
Firefox was born out of the Mozilla project.
That came from Netscape?
Ladybird is also making weird moves around AI and I feel obligated to mention fascism
Ladybird is not becoming vibe-coded, the AI generated code is being tested and refactored all the time, it’s not straight up slop like what most junior devs do now.
Reminds me a local youtuber saying something similar about non-profit companies.
They said it’s human nature to be driven by profit, so non-profits are profiting in some other way. Hence he prefers to give business to for profit companies as you know their intentions.
People at the heads of nonprofits are often highly compensated, and it’s rare that any of them solve the underlying problem or even make meaningful headway. It’s why there is so much “awareness” and short term band aids involved. A nonprofit that solves the problem it’s supposedly trying to solve has no reason to exist and will cost people well paying jobs managing it.
Well unfortunately he’s right. Most non-profit companies are profiting off of things like your donations and such like that. You look at the Susan g Komen foundation for breast cancer awareness. Something like 5% maybe 10% of all donated funds actually go to breast cancer research. The rest of the funds are used to fund the staff including those that are in charge of the board. And they have massive paydays.
IDK, but I’d rather be the beta tester for some open source project, or even contribute code to it (I fixed a language server this way), than to pay premium for a software, which I won’t “own”, has a bunch of microtransactions, and becomes lower and lower in quality.
I’d doing something that makes you happy is a kind of profiting then he is right. But he is probably not that wholesome.
Oh the irony
Obligatory shoutout to curl.
I’m more of a wget kinda guy myself.
Try wget2 instead, it’s faster.
If wget2 is so good, why is there no wget3?
If all you use is HTTP or FTP then sure.
I’m more of a Zmodem guy.
Audacity sold out and is now spyware; use Tenacity instead.
Wait, what?!? You got a source for that?
I’ll be pissed if it’s true… Audacity holds a special place in my heart.
Source - download page’s main option wants you to download using the “Muse Hub”. Even if you install with a normal installer, here’s one of the welcome tips
Yuck. Thanks for the heads-up.
Your complaint is that they offer optional plugins, downloadable via their launcher that is specifically designed to make installing plugins more convenient?
My complaint is that that MuseHub is being pushed as the main way to download Audacity. Right now, it’s a relatively small push, but I vaguely recall that (so I might be misremembering), a few months ago, the Audacity installer would try to sneak a install of MuseHub
For real!? Damn
Not really, it’s still fully FOSS, they were just terrible at communicating what they actually wanted to do and people got spooked.
Not for real.
Really? It doesn’t look like it - theta been some bleating about lag and far of oy uploading audio but other than a whole lot if argument, I can’t see much in the way of details, let alone facts
Firefox is not high quality. Every other browser is just worse.
🫢 Kof, kof! …fork browsers.
Same issues
Tbh I quite like it
Blender is so incredibly good. Big fan here. I’m just a hobbyist tho
shoutout to MPV!
Non-profit means the corporation isn’t set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.
Who woulda thunk greed is the denominator??!!
A lot of executives at non-profits do get paid a lot. Non-profits also need enough money to operate and growth is of course desired. What they don’t have that publicly traded corporations and venture capital funded startups have is pressure to continually grow, no matter the societal cost. They also don’t have investors outside the company scraping the cream off the top or manipulating their valuation, and instead, all profits have to be invested back into the company. A non-profit’s products can still decline in quality for various reasons, but there is less of a motive to deliberately enshittify them to make number go up. Compare Mozilla’s AI to Microsoft Edge, for example.
Non-profits seem to work better when they produce a product. But when they produce nothing and just have a goal, they don’t want to close shop after achieving that goal. Like MADD. The woman who founded it left a quarter of century ago because she accomplished what she set out to do. Those running it today don’t want to lose their meal ticket.
A big share of Linux contributions come from big tech companies, which are definitely making a profit from it
As someone who recently started getting into digital art, I’m genuinely shocked at how good Krita is.
This is a raster graphics editor that could could potentially rival the likes of Photoshop, Affinity Photo and Paint Shop Pro in terms of features. GIMP by comparison is dogshit.
Ok, while most of these don’t have companies behind them with huge revenues, most work on these projects is done by paid developers, with money coming from sponsorships, grants, donations and support deals. (Or in the case of Linux - device drivers are a prerequisite for anyone buying your product).
Developers getting paid to work on open source is a good thing. These projects may have begun their life as small hobby projects - they aren’t anymore. (And that’s probably good)
OpenTTD is the pinnacle of open source software. They should have stopped there
🪟: absolutely atrocious. let’s do for-profit low quality software instead 😡
