Some projects , like Godot are MIT so contributors can use it for their own commercial projects.

Occasionally, EA for example, a big corp will donate some money to. Apple has created PRS to add support for Vision Pro.

If Godot was GPL it would be useless for most commercial game devs.

I believe Open Source software sold developers the dream of "to be hired for what they have developed" and cash-in the effort they have spent as a future, stable employment.

Many die on the hill of "developing something required for free with permissive licenses for recognition which will help with their future endeavors", which is the same with other creative lines of work. As a result they are milked of their knowledge and forced to bear the burden of leading the project and handling the community while companies just use what's developed while quietly but strongly nudging the project's direction for their benefit.

If the developer gets rogue, the thing is forked and sometimes closed down with no downside to the company, but the community and the developer(s) are hung to dry, conveniently signaling other developers about what they might face if they disobey their overlords with iron fists in velvet gloves as a secondary effect.

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What killed Drupal, and what replaced it? WordPress?

It's worth noting that even more staid distributions like Debian provide you with the means to do this. It's arguably bit more complicated, but saves you a lot of time and hassle on the happy path.

I use OpenBSD and it’s actually the same thing with the additional niceties of binary packages. A bug or an issue with any program (including the kernel and drivers)? Patch and rebuild.

I’m on bazzite which isn’t perfect but it’s lightyears ahead of windows.

You can always find bad examples. The good news is there’s still lots of good ones out there right now. No point in being defeatist about it, just do what you can

I depend on the community tbh. Poor phrasing, it implies I personally audit it. But ultimately if I want to I can and I know plenty of folks scour repos/compile code themselves, so if something is wrong it’ll likely come out. It’s open source, they can’t hide it from people who are looking. Also I’m not entirely ignorant - I can sometimes see when something is up, I am comfortable using a CLI, I know my way around a computer better than most.

Wouldn’t you say that’s way better than the status quo with windows/macOS?

why would they compete with it when its open?

Acknowledging the result of defeatism should push us toward a different mindset, not more defeatism. Over the long run, humanity has a pretty good record, carried by the people who refuse to give up.

Only if people succumb to defeatism. There have been documented instances of that not happening.

It's the same easy as falling out of a plane without a parachute. Gravity will do all the work but you'll not like what happens at the bottom.

> I prefer easy.

Clearly you don’t feel that strongly about it. You know what would’ve been easier than making an account just to post that comment? Not doing that.

Have you also stopped working, paying your bills, showering, eating, interacting with other people? Not doing any of that is easier than doing it.