Friends don’t let friends use proprietary software.
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Redhat was bought by IBM for 34 Billion dollars.
IBM knew their proprietary crap could not compete with FOSS alternatives.
Unity could make plenty of money on the asset store, and would never have to worry about Godot eating their lunch if they open-sourced their game engine. But this type of stuff will force people over to Godot.
This has everything to do with FOSS.
If a company can get away with pulling the rug on you, they will.
Once you’ve heavily invested in using a a piece of software, the company behind it has leverage over you, but if you could pay for updates to that software from another company, the original company has no leverage over you.
The only reason these companies refuse to release the source code is because they are planning on fucking you over in the future. As consumers we need to demand open source products to prevent this sort of abuse.
sorry it was hard to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS2lJNQn3NA
the only reason apple cares about security is so theyre the exclusive vendor of your information.
they both play ball with everyone, apple just charges more
EDIT: IOS had a “feature” where it would phone home to ask if every application was allowed to launch, but it didn’t use any security like TLS. this is an unbelievable security hole that allows everyone on the wifi to see what youre doing and network admins to prevent you from running any program. this show how little they care about your privacy, and how much they care about control
slaps roof of coffin
So what would it take to get you in one of these?