for me, open source is really useful since its really easy to collab with people and with proprietary software its basically impossible

Open source is better. Open source can have some forks with additional features, like youtube-dl and yt-dlp. Open source programs can be modified. I added several times some little features to some programs even considering my little knowledge in programming.

For me, the Proprietary software is depend on the people on the company goal and direction, how much it benefit the people using it and how much they care.

I think it really depends on licensing. I use the GPL v3 for any personal project I work on, however, if I was trying to collaborate with a company I would really prefer my code to be under a more permissive license like the MIT or the Apache License. I don't like proprietary software, not because of ethics or something like that, there a ton of shit-tier (possibly including myself) programmers that make software with stupidly obvious (and easy to fix) bugs, the problem with proprietary software is that you can't fix those, or might not even be aware. Therefore, I see proprietary software as more of a security risk.

On open source you're sure, your contributer works from enthusiasm. You can't be sure about that when someone is payed by the hour

I personally believe both development models are equally as good and have their advantages and inherent issues. The development model and software license a software developer chooses would depend on what product they are creating and their exact goals they intend to achieve with it.

open source ftw! also, my condolences about what happened with unity.

open source cuz I can customize as I want

Any proprietary software is a thin layer of cover on 95% open source libraries

Open source is in the most case better because you can make your own version and you can be sure that its not s virus since you can look into the code

im neutral with both, as long as the proprietary software doesn't do something malicious (data harvesting, etc...) and isn't just some corporate bloat

@ilonachan

10 ай бұрын

the problem being, of course, that with proprietary software you will never know that. They can just lie and you'll never know.

I use open source solutions for my home and personal projects. It's good stuff most of the time. But when it's come to my work equipment I'll go to the proprietary things most of the time because in terms in bugs/stability proprietary is better than open source. For example I use Shinobi CCTV system for my home security. It's open source, regularly updating and great software overall for an individual. But I tried to use it in our main office with 30 cameras and it just can't run smoothly and stable. So we got a new commercial proprietary CCTV system and it's working great.

for me, proprietary software is better because if I ever make it open-source, some programmers might steal the code, modify it, and post it, claiming that they made it.

Plenty of open-source projects are mainly created or largely aided by corporations. There are obviously FOSS companies like Red Hat or Canonical, but also much of the Linux kernel and other critical enterprise software is maintained and developed with help from companies like Google, Microsoft, etc.

Open source all the way across the sky, baby.

IMO Open or Propritary doesn't matter as much as leadership, direction, support, and having a good design.

You don't have to worry that the people working on an open source project will suddenly or price gouge you to death. cough Unity cough. I predicted issues like this would arise in 2019. rip silksong.

people love to brag about their favorite projects being open source like shotcut and blender. but tell me, when was the last time you ACTUALLY looked at the source code? look at godot its entirely open source and people love to brag about "if you hate it, then add new features". but theres still hundreds of issues with it and the devs are pretty much the only people actually fixing issues being the original dev team. so with that being said, i dont think it matters that your software is open source

TL;DR: open source software is the true way and windows will only stay "competitive" with linux by keeping an slight edge on the latest nvidia gpu and disregarding everything else, or by using linux internally to support linuxy things like docker or WSL. There's no need for a "better" one. Proprietary software dies when its owner loses financial incentive. open source is slow because it's just a chaotic lump of code being written in random places, but once it accumulates, it suddenly makes previously proprietary software pointless (Godot engine, anyone ?) There is always going to be proprietary software because of how slow open source develops and because of the money incentives. But the proprietary software is always bound to disappear at some point. Btw, proprietary and open source software also have different ways of being done, and "corporate open source" is very rarely useful to anyone other than the company itself. Letting users know what you're doing with their hardware is just being polite and not too actively trying to be too shady to be trusted. Especially now that there's almost no difference anymore between proprietary software and spyware (telemetry)/ransomware (EULA/ToS)

Open source is obviously better, like you said, you can fix bugs or add features yourself, unlike proprietary software

Oppensorce because everyone can build of your code, and make it better.

Open Source is 100% better. You can have a great view of what the code does and you always can be sure that it is working as intended, not being a malware or leaking your data. You basically can trust Open Source software. And, of course, you can participate in it's development, adding features and fixing bugs. And not using some apparently in most cases trash-coded stuff from corporations. #StallmanWasRight

There is a thing called "Proprietary Open source software", an example of which is Ubuntu.

@diotitus

12 күн бұрын

You are unintelligent.

Depends…

open source goog

For software developers yes. For non software developers no.

Holy iGNUcius.

I don't really care, as long as it works for free

open source

Proprietary software is pretty much always built on top of OSS

@abhabh6896

Жыл бұрын

Nope. That would be in violation of the GPL license and would be illegal.

@kkounal974

Жыл бұрын

​@@abhabh6896 Most open source software are MIT and another permitting licenses that aren't copyleft like GPL.

@vaisakhkm783

10 ай бұрын

@@abhabh6896 GPL is an extreme copyleft licence.. Even then, statically linking Proprietary code in it would a violation. they can just depend on those libraries dynamically.. for example, most servers use linux and gnu tools and make tools that depend on gnu tools. And many big software made by companies (chromium, android, vscodium) are using more permissive licenses

in my experience proprietary is almost always better

@vieilatome2257

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever try foss ?

@bubatz5115

Жыл бұрын

If you think propiatary is always better due to your experience then you don’t have much experience

@921Ether

Жыл бұрын

@@bubatz5115 i said almost

@vaisakhkm783

10 ай бұрын

@@921Ether i always had much more less irritation with open source softwares...

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