Comment on "Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s a cycle.
- Indie devs will find / build new platform
- The platform will gain traction
- It’ll grow exponentially
- It’ll reach a point where platform devs will be greedy or itll be taken over by big corps.
Rinse and repeat.
Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
Gdot is FOSS engine. This means it will most probably never pull shit like that and even if everybody is allowed to fork it before a bad change and continue with that
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year ago
While I totally agree with what you said, big corps would work hard to limit FOSS.
Googles web integrity API is an example of what might happen.
Invidia could pull shit like this processing only “trusted” code from trusted source like steam which might not consider FOSS as trusted.
Don’t get me wrong. I use Linux and I prefer FOSS over paid software.
But recently the gate seems to getting closed slowly. Corps devoting their resources to lobby against FOSS.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That has been a decades long battle. They’ll never win the war.
Microsoft was 100% against Linux 15 years ago. Now there is a Linux subsystem sitting next to the core of the OS.
DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 year ago
And honestly it seems like FOSS solutions are way more usable these days. In the old days it was a huge hit in either features or UI.
qaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, they’ve taken an “if you can’t beat them, join them” approach to FOSS for a while now.
Johanno@feddit.de 1 year ago
However you still can brew your own soup if there is a foss Version of a program out there.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think Godot will eventually replace Unity. They’ve definitely given us enough reason to never touch Unity again, and if you already know Unity, Godot isn’t that hard to switch to.