What people don’t always remember about FOSS is they are just making it for themselves they are users as well as devs. The great thing about FOSS is if someone else happens to use it that’s great and maybe they will contribute to something they use.
Apache OpenOffice??
Surely you meant LibreOffice. OpenOffice has basically been dead for years, with no significant work going on.
Lmao I’ve been doing a digital forensics class online, and it’s always got VMs with ancient versions of software on it, so I got to discover what Apache OpenOffice was. Love that they have to use FOSS to teach us shit since Windows needs a subscription.
Typo
I almost wrote dogital forensics. Is that using dogs to find data? Sniff out that hard drive and get datadumping boy!
Why on earth is OpenOffice here??
LibreOffice is the maintained fork.
It has been that way for 16 years now.
16 years.
There are people working full time jobs who were born the same year that LibreOffice started.
Stop promoting OpenOffice. People will have problems with it that have been long fixed in LibreOffice.
Edit: typo
Heck, they won’t even let you into a difficult-to-cancel subscription! What are they thinking? Think of the revenue!
I heard they don’t collect your private information and sell it to third parties, either. It’s as if they hate society itself!
With enshitification nowadays, the fact that they’re nonprofit is the reason why the software is good quality.
Non-profit means the corporation isn’t set up to make a profit and the business operates off of donations instead of selling a product. So there is always a profit motive. I wish more people understood this. Everything from Greenpeace to MADD is still a corporation ran by people who want to make lots and lots of cash.
Where is FreeCad in this one? I’ve started using it after buying a 3d printer, and it’s awesome what that piece of software lets me create.
firefox? no profit incentive? we wish
I’m not sure Firefox belongs on this list. Google finances Mozilla’s operation to the tune of $420M a year. It’s not for-profit, but it’s also not the same as the others.
The Audacity!
Will they get away with it? Vee’ll see.
I’ll go home now, HEY DON’T PUSH ME
In May 2021, after the project was acquired by Muse Group,[58] there was a draft proposal to add opt-in telemetry to the code to record application usage. Some users responded negatively, with accusations of turning Audacity into spyware.[59] The company reversed course, falling back to error/crash reporting and optional update checking instead.[60] Another controversy in July 2021[61] resulted from a change to the privacy policy which said that although personal data was stored on servers in the European Economic Area, the program would “occasionally [be] required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA”.[62] That July, the Audacity team apologized for the changes to the privacy policy and removed mention of the data storage provision which was added “out of an abundance of caution”.[61]
Awwww… :(
Hey at least they removed mentioning it in the TOS!
Yeyyy!.. :)
…:(
required to share your personal data with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA
Which most probably means that if you report a bug, you send them data about your installation and whatever additional data you include, like the email to contact you.
Lawyers keep stepping on this rake time and again when writing terms and policies.
Firefox has a profit incentive and its making low quality software…
I wouldn’t say low
Yeah low. If you compare load times side by side with chromium based browsers, you can’t deny how painfully slow firefox is. Thats not to mention the ancient bugs that will never get fixed and the random predatory functionality they keep adding. Low is generous.
Your last benchmarks were made in 2015 or something?
Are you talking about the bugs or the delay? For the delay I just tried last week actually. I always run a few browsers side by side out of necessity, and watching how much longer I wait for spinning loading icons on Firefox made me real sad. I can’t afford the small but real delay. Life is too short for that. Anyone who can stomach the slowdown, I praise you for your ideals, genuine respect.
Talking about delays. For Mozilla products, yea, they have bugs, I trust you on this and have experienced it haha
What websites? Some are optimized for specific browser types and probably shouldn’t be accounted for as it’s not really the browser’s fault: TikTok on web for example
I’ve used both Brave and Firefox and apart from specific websites, I’ve never really seen a difference. But if it’s still slower that’s good to know, but most people seem to disagree with you.
Frankly, anyways I personally prefer wasting a few minutes of my life every day and life my life the way I want it to be, supporting better software and protecting my privacy and anonymity rather than going all Google or the easy route. That’s why I use FOSS software.
There is a reason for profits spend a fortune on marketing.
