| ▲ | threethirtytwo 3 hours ago | |
The irony is that gaming on linux got better but the instigator was not the OSS community. All of it was funded by closed source software competing with other close source software. The OSS community by itself did not have the conviction to climb over this bulwark. | ||
| ▲ | nine_k 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
But when Steam started to develop Proton, WINE was 90% there! Valve only had to provide the remaining 90%. The strength of Linux and Free software in general is not in that it's completely built by unpaid labor. It's built by a lot of paid, full-time labor. But the results are shared with everyone. The strength of Free software is that it fosters and enforces cooperation of all interested parties, and provides a guarantee that defection is an unprofitable move. This is one of the reasons you see Linux everywhere, and *BSD, rarely. | ||
| ▲ | Spivak 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Money and resources suddenly materialized once someone realized that there was profit in it is pretty much the expected way this goes. OpenTofu happened not because of some OSS force of will but because a group of companies needed it to exist for their business. This flow is basically the bread and butter for the OSS community and the only way high effort projects get done. | ||