Interesting that they went to visit the Blender offices, considering Blender still has it's own video editor (that seems to be ramping up on receiving improvements as of late too) which is basically a "competitor" (as far as FOSS has competitors) to Kdenlive.

I'd love to know more what actually went down there, is there plans about sharing of code or something similar, considering the two applications serve similar use cases when it comes to video editing?

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prmoustache 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Open source projects do not necessary see alternatives as "competitors" if they don't market/sell their software.

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embedding-shape 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Great work responding to the only point I tried to make as weak as possible, and even provided an explanation for why it isn't "correct" in the first place...

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nathanmills 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Calling FOSS devs "competitors" is such a corporate-minded statement that completely misses the point. FOSS devs all work together to achieve a common goal and don't see other projects as competitors, they see them as friends.

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elteto 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Competition for non-monetary resources is absolutely a thing. Developer time is scarce and other projects can absolutely see others as competitors in this regard. We have plenty of stories of project forks sprouting because of frustration/disagreement/etc and the new fork starts gathering more attention/contributions because of better governance, better devx, saner environment, etc.

	▲	darkwater 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but this is not a case of project hard fork, not even a soft fork. They are two completely unrelated projects. People contributing to KDE would probably not contribute to Gnome for a variety of reasons - and vice versa - and it's perfectly fine. One aspect of open source is biodiversity.

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embedding-shape 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree, that what I literally tried to qualify it... Goddamn some of you seem to write comments with the sole purpose to disagree with the smallest of things.

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TehCorwiz 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Blender is a wild untamed beast of a thousand panels. Those who wrangle the beast are wise and powerful. But they became that was from the journey. Kdenlive is a much more approachable quest for someone who is just entering the dungeon.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What's great about Blender, is that if you learn the UI, controls and hotkeys for the purposes of 3D, you can basically use the same UI, controls and hotkeys for video editing, and vice-versa of course :)

People overplay how unfriendly it is nowadays too, very far from how it was a decade ago, when it was really hard to understand how the UI and UX worked.

	▲	Narishma 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's been ages since I last tried Blender, is it still unusable without a numpad?
	▲	TehCorwiz 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Oh, don't get me wrong. I love it at tinker with it regularly. But power comes with complexity. It's always a trade off.