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I don't... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

do you really expect people, who do this work in their free time out of the goodness of their heart, to release fully finished products that are supposed to work 100% flawlessly right from the get-go? maybe FOSS isn't the right space for you then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are projects that beg to differ. PipeWire, a perfect example. The author thought it wasn't stable enough even though some distros addopted it as default. He switched to version 1.0 a few months ago.

And I do also use non-FOSS software. I use whatever I like, I don't discriminate, FOSS or not. Sure, it'd be great if every piece of software was open source, but hey, things are what they are 🤷. DaVinci Resolve is closed source, but there are a lot of things NLE video editors can learn from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t realise Red Hat, SUSE, Microsoft etc. didn’t pay their staff?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

are they working on wayland?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From the first result on Google:

The Wayland Display Server project was started by Red Hat developer Kristian Høgsberg in 2008

So yeah, I suspect Red Hat does in some way contribute to development. As I’m sure does Microsoft, Canonical etc.

None of this happens in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is what I found:

Wayland is developed by a group of volunteers initially led by Kristian Høgsberg

I can't deny that maybe some larger company allocated resources to the project, even if, to me, it seems like no large company is directly funding the project right now, and Kristian seems like he hasn't really participated in the development of wayland for the past year or so. The fact remains that it's a FOSS project and you aren't a paying customer, so IMO it's kinda ridiculous to complain about it not being perfect right away. Work on improving it if you think it's so bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that's not at all what they said but stay angry nerd