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"First remove the closed source vendor lock in from your own codebase before checking for license issues in your neighbor's codebase" Engineerings 5:33 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I think that's because the software comes from a similar place. You have to fight for your freedom and it takes effort, and the people that put that effort in like to feel good about it by sharing (or showing off). It's like gym-goers who like to show their hard-earned progress.

And then there's the fundamental differences in core philosophy, where a lot of friction between open and closed source projects comes in. It's warranted, but I get why it's annoying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The vegans of the software world.

PS, I run Arch.

[+] [email protected] -32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Look, I might have switched to Godot if all the people recommending it weren't so annoying about it. Effort or not, the vast majority of those people did not contribute to the software, so it wasn't even their fight. They just adopted a weird oppression fetish into their personality and decided to make FOSS into their god.

If someone was wronged by "Big GameDev" or whatever and developed their own FOSS replacement, then good on them, I am happy to listen about it. But the large majority of these users didn't do that, but act like they did. Just be normal, please. Being so overly annoying about it isn't going to attract more people, existing users being annoying are going to push away potential new users.

[–] eclipse 22 points 11 months ago

You're just as annoying as the people preaching Godot. Surely you see that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Just someone didn't develop something dosen't mean they can't passionately share it. If you like a TV show and started talking about how much you like the show it wouldn't rude for you to share just because you weren't the director of the show.