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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The dynamics of open source development are very different from commercial ventures. For example, Mastodon is basically developed by a single person with a few contributors. Yet, from user perspective it's superior to Twitter in many ways which is a company that used to have around 3k employees. The fact that Unity is a big company that has a lot of money doesn't directly translate into doing much higher quality development over Godot. It's a more polished product right now, but even a few hundred thousand can make a huge difference for Godot because that would mean full time development for at least a year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bucky was right once again with his theory of "Ephemeralization" https://dbpedia.org/page/Ephemeralization ... The only reason we're concerned with these companies employing Devs and spending Billions to do what small teams of FOSS are able to achieve is simply a bad economic system that requires "make work" or Bullshit jobs for wages to feed the parasite class, instead of us living like the Jetson's. Time to move one!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

The Jetsons still lived in a world with class exploitation, George works on a bulshit job btw.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bad example on my part;)

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