The WORST Take on Open Source I've EVER Seen 

The whole thing reads like a piece of contrarian argument that someone constructed for a debate contest on a subject they know nothing about.

"Linux is inferior to Windows and Mac!" *laughs in 95% market share of cloud and server infrastructure*

He has to be a troll, considering he also wrote "You do not need math to be a software developer" and "Don’t study computer science".

Open source is the foundation of the entire tech industry. Patents and closed source code just hold back progress to keep some Californian CEOs pockets full

This guy's life is probably so corporate-pilled and money-driven that they see faithful volunteers doing work on software for the betterment of every user as a low standard venture. Knowing there's standards to releasing open source software. Even better, open source software allows other users to fix your mistakes while keeping the functionality you intended so...

"A complete waste of time" Funny how there are billion dollar companies doing support for open software that employ engineers that are paid very very well. I work for one of those companies.

As someone who writes proprietary software for a living, I guarantee you that the vast majority of Open Source software is better maintained than proprietary software.

So far, this sounds like someone screaming into the wind about how their sunk cost is worth it, because the alternative has to be substandard, because they've spent money on this thing, so it has to be the better, because the alternative has to suck.... Right? It feels like the writer is using circular logic to legitimise his claims.

Gist of this article is conflating open source with free software, and then conflating free software with anecdotal experiences.

To all of us developers that are actually educated, what this guy posted was basically, "2 * 2 = 22". It's the most ignorant post that's possible when it comes to critiquing FOSS. Someone that learns what BASH stands for has more knowledge than the author of this article.

Saying open source is bad because it leaves you open to people pirating your code is like saying print publishing is bad because it leaves you open to someone stealing your novel.

Hi please could you make a video on students who are studying in cs: practical tips on how to study, note taking etc... and what they should be doing whilst studying in college and after?

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unreal is better then unity and its opensource...

There are obviously no barriers or gatekeepers when it comes to writing for Medium.

I live in the Dominican Republic. In Jan 2021 I repaired somebody's Pentium 4 and installed Peppermint 10 on it, they replaced it within a week by an illegal copy of Windows XP. I say the poor man's software are the illegal copies of Windows.

I think the biggest thing this person doesn't understand, is that most open source developers are professionals working for some company, most people contributing to Linux are at Intel, AMD, Google, etc.

"blender is inferior to 3DS Max, Modo, Maya and Z-brush" sure, that's why Blender is being more and more used by big industries. Of course !

There's even a subreddit about this article jfc. Americans embracing classism is not a good look.

If it wasn't for blender I would have never gotten into 3D. I use it extensively day to day from professional use to personal projects. The Idea of gatekeeping creative tools and techs behind a paywall, making it only accessible to the people who had to go through corporate hell is absurd. Its only because of these open source projects my 10 year old cousin can make sick renders, make music, edit videos so on and so forth and that reason alone is enough to push and praise "open source".

And it's interesting to note that Blender wasn't always Open Source. As commercial software it failed to be maintained and the rights and source code offered up for sale. We contributed real money to purchase this and release it as Open Source.

The part with the "intellectual property" also don't makes sense to me, it's not like proprietary software has no piracy or other copyright infringement.

Ok I have to admit that when blender became a thing that is what I use to hear. Even as far recently as a few years ago, people would say learn Maya. They actually still say this now of the sculpting part of blender and to stick with Zbrush. It's still not "industry standard" in neither regard but can definitely pull its own weight. I'm now embarking on 3d modeling and blender will be my main driver so to speak. I no longer hear people downing blender so much like in the past, and certainly it's not without its flaws but the benefits far outgain the cons. Now when it comes to linux, windows still has them beat in terms of ease of use, but the margins are lessening. The unfortunate side to that story is that for certain things you just need a windows computer. The things is this is not exclusive to linux, MacOS suffers the same but to a lesser degree. The other unfortunate truth is that a company that can spends millions on development and R&D will probably always have a better version and a poetic justice of sorts this is also becoming the thing that BLOATS their software. Finally, let this sink in, in the early 90s to early 2000s a company like microsoft would've never supported open source, even though they only shifted some, now they support certain aspects of open source. Microsoft, yea those guys.

IF anything these hit jobs on open source just makes me want to speed up my process in migrating completely over to Linux. The more I stay longer with either Windows and MacOS/iOS the more I feel I am losing "ownership" and control over my OS, applications and by extension the devices running them. I'm not swayed by their fear mongering "you are on your own" when I know I can have total autonomy yet also be among and get support from a growing massive community.

For the blender example the blender foundation did try to make blender a paid program for 1.5 i think but by 1.6 it was back to being open source and free to use. The reason why is the user and developer drop off from going from free to paid but yes version 1.5 is still able to be downloaded and use. Right now 20ish years later i think it is on version 2.92 and 3.1(alpha). Everything abought it changed due to major changes in code so version 3 is nothing like the code of 1.5. You also have in the license agreement they use IF you take out certain parts and pieces it legally is able to be sold as a product IF you include and make able to be seen and modified the code of the blender version the product is using. The thing is Cycles is not owned by Blender nor is it under any license that you can sell your own product at all with cycles includes so to sell blender you will have to recompile it with cycles not included. Yes there is a compile flag for that to happen. You also have OptiX will have to be not included in the compile as it is owned enough by nVidia that if sold nVidia gets a cut. How it is used by blender is it is in it for free with its own separate and apart from the blender license agreement for that rendering option. etc. with how you have to recompile it to exclude everything that requires you to get permission from another company to work with for another product. I think the guy who wrote the article thought there was ONLY 1 license agreement like most pay for it software not i think blender is up to 5 now if not more. There are many reasons for that but in short the program needs parts from copyrighted material owned by other companies but allowed to use it under an agreement outline in said license agreement text. You get to it by opening the python file on the top of the file usually in the comments for some for others there a text file under .nfo or .md. I do agree it will take a book of 500+ pages to explain how open source works and doesn't work. The why is there are to many parts and pieces to put just into 1 comment on RU-vid.

A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep

Comparing blender to 3d max is like comparing a Swiss army knife to a table knife.

I just went to the comments of the article, poor guy they were destroying it in the worst possible way, cordially and with arguments.

You know what's crazy? Any software developer that's worth their salt uses open source software all the time-- from the frameworks, libraries, modules, etc, that they use to develop. All of those things were given to the community for free. In fact, the most used OS for production level applications use an OS that is open source. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's of a lower quality, and if anything, actually can increases its quality due to more eyes to spot errors/inefficiencies and put in pull requests with improvements. Most software developers understand and embrace this communal spirit of giving. We understand that the path we're walking was paved by those before us and for that we owe them and ourselves to give, however small, our contribution to the software community.

Lack of support, lack of support, lack of support... For the longest time i have been buying common software like windows and office. The support have never actually helped me solved technical problem.

To me it seems like proprietary software is more common on the "frontier", and then eventually an open source implementation will catch up. Take for example Linux which is finally gaining some desktop popularity, or blender which is becoming better and better. I think the reason for this is that proprietary projects can direct development and enforce their vision much more easily. But fast forward to a few years after their release when that vision has become obvious, and an open source community can coordinate their development much more easily since everyone agrees on the goal.

If open source is inferior, how come most proprietary software comes with disclaimers for open source software? And key functionality of that said proprietary software depends on the open source code?

Problem is most open source software IS sub par compared to commercial offerings. Usability and basic UI/UX are often severely lacking in open source.

What I'm happiest the most about changing jobs is getting rid of my company issued Mac this month and going back to whatever Linux I decide to use 😬

I love the point of the bad code bc if you are in a company and produce bad code they wont laugh but just fire you which is worse. (At least the way he writes)

If you need 4 commercial products together to beat Blender, I wouldn't call Blender "inferior".

Software is a means to an end. Software developers sometimes loose site of the big picture and think the software itself is the end.

5 seconds into the article and it’s the classic “it’s bad because I say so”

I reeealy wish that privacy was available outside the US…

All I heard was "I'm annoying and nobody wants me to be a part of their projects, so open source sucks"

His point about who do you sue is laughable, clearly he has never read the EULAs on commercial software.

Delaney's Law: The price of any software product will approach zero.

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The amount of proprietary Software built on top of M.I.T. Open Source Software is astonishing.

I suspect this is a guy who's had his contributions rejected

My first thought: "of course it's a medium article"

“Linux is inferior to windows and Mac!” Literally every IT guy: “I’ve seen enough. I’m unsatisfied.”

"Blender is inferior to 3DS Max"😳 Now that That hurt me. Blender is an amazing software and I would argue that Blender was able to build a HUGE community comprising of artists and developers working together because it was open source😀❤️

I'm a scientist and right now there is an increased number of scientists developing open-source software and hardware. Thanks to that, the price of equipment to do research has dropped significantly reducing the cost of doing science, and also we have more open and reproducible research.

Him: Open source is a complete waste of time Linux being the backbone of most of the Internet, because of its open source nature to be able to adapt to what people need: the fu...

Honesty I don’t see how anyone could hate on open source

The author sounds like someone who's been stuck on the same position in a company for a really long time, and he's seen people younger than him with less experience go up the ladder faster, so he created some sort of boogeyman to explain why he isn't treated better.

>Boomer cries about something that he can’t exploit and make money off. Yeah, fits the usual pattern.

Troll getting thrashed by Jesus made my day🤣

Boomer making closed source software with open source languages 🤣

I know you aren't trying to hate on him, but I will speak negatively about him for a minute here. Honestly, anyone who shits on something just to rile people up isn't a good person. If that not having a girlfriend anecdote he made is true, it certainly has nothing to do with him not being able to "pay for a date at starbucks" and everything to do with his trashy attitude. It also seems like he is one of the bad coders that supposedly has their code get made fun of, most likely because he claims to have 20+ years of experience in coding, and most certainly doesn't. Overall strikes me as the kind of person who lies about damn near everything in their life and then gets aggressive when called out on it. (These 2 sentences are 100% speaking from my own personal experience interacting with others, he acts the same way other people I have met who fit the descriptions I just gave do. It's completely anecdotal.)

VS Code still has some some closed-source stuff, like Microsoft's built-in telemetry. VSCodium is a 1/1 VS Code clone, fully open-source with 0 telemetry, so I recommend using that.

My guy said linux is inferior.. Everything you use runs on linux

Blender is literally an industry standard. And Godot is so fun and intuitive, how could you hate it unless you haven't used it

At worst, I see open source contributions as one of two things. Either someone is honing their craft on a project that isn't going to cost anyone money, where good work will be implemented and you'll have something to show for it. Or it's someone that's got a job they're confortable in and they want to give back where they can.

I feel like whoever wrote that article has never been near academia. Some of the best chemistry and physics simulation, modelling and statistical software is open source

I love when something starts with "everyone can see why, and those who can't are stupid". You know that writer knows what he is talking about, even highly educated on the subject...

The "who do you even hold responsible for damages?" is hilarious. I guess the author has never actually read a EULA, where all of them at some point say essentially "we're not responsible for any damages, ever. Go suck on a lemon". It's pretty sad if they think that proprietary software has some kind of "guarantee" that it works without defects.

"Godot is inferior to Unity". Dude has probably never heard of UE4 and Cryengine. Though technically not OPEN source, they are source available and HUGELY benefit from community members' efforts to improve the engine.

Godot is an unfair example.It's in its VERY early stages and it still slowly catching up to other good Graphics Engines. So it sounds like Godot is great and getting greater in time!

When comparing game engines he casually omits Unreal Engine, which is open source.

I have spent over 1000 hours in Blender as an animator and I can't wrap my head around why anyone would say it's inferior to Maya or Max. I would even argue that it's a better tool for general purpose 3D work.

Wow, open source is so awesome and I feel builds a better community.

"Things fall apart and projects get abandoned." Old Microsoft, Adobe, or Apple stuff from the 90s: yeah good luck getting that to work. Obscure but large open source project: last commit 13 hours ago. Additionally, open source stuff tends to get picked up by someone when abandoned. Or.. it doesn't get abandoned at all and becomes a ship of Theseus. Corporate closed source abandonware is usually just dead.

The elitist guy that refuses to use any software unless there is some evil corporation fucking him over is by far my least favorite type of creator.

That article sounds as if a certain (unnamed) youtuber could have written it (as a millionaire)

Leo seems a bit salty, almost like he had a bad experience with like having code rejected because it was of poor quality. Did Leo feature on /r/badcode?

I think the ALDI comparison is a window into this person's psyche. This person probably wants name brand products because of the feeling he gets from something easily recognizable. He probably has a golden retriever. Or he had dreams of being a hotshot indie star, riding on the back of his dream project, but didn't get anywhere and is now in reaction.

Somebody declined his pull request, this guy got issuezoned

Open source is based. I am from a third world country and most of the software I make use of to learn new things are open source. People coming together to build something out of compassion and genuine interest is always better than something built for extracting profit. I know this is a competitive world but open source makes it a better place. Long live open source software.

I wanna add something. I once had a lecture who worked at IBM and he told us that IBM in fact pays around 200 people a month only to contribute to open source! Why? Because big tech companies also rely on open source! Anything from Apache is widely used in the industry

I wonder if the fact that the website he has posted his article on, is likely on an open source server, running along side an open source database, on a machine in a building somewhere running on linux, I truely wonder if that irony is lost on him?

The guy wants attention, he looks like a kid complaining about the whole game, just because nobody wants him on the team.

I watched this video in an open source browser, on and open source PC operating system, that was probably recorded with an open source recording program, and may very well have been edited in an open source video editor. But yeah, open source sucks. Also, has this guy every actually shopped at ALDI? You can honestly get some pretty good stuff there.

Well, that was a BAD fit for something to watch with my morning coffee. Now I'm starting my day with a tiny bit of anger - _- I worked in 3D graphics for years, and used to teach 3DS Max! And I can tell you that blender has a way easier learning curve. It was not always this way, but the vision he has is like 10 years old at this point. And now that I am a developer, his words are even more of a joke! If we ignore that he doesn't actually know what open source means and is mixing it up with "community driven" projects, how many community driven projects are there that can rival or sometimes exceed the commercial counterparts? Vue vs. React and Angular? Linux vs. Windows in the server space? Blender vs. 3DS Max, Maya, AND Cinema4D? Please don't make stupid people famous, this guy is dying for attention, and by featuring him in a video, we're just making him more visible. Remember that all marketing is good marketing, even the bad one.

This guy hating on open source while most probably his article is hosted on a Linux server (and maybe using wordpress). I love the sweet taste of irony

I just watched a video by DistroTube talking about the same thing Using FOSS has helped me feel so free from proprietary constraints It also made me want to learn and contribute to the community as well, monetary or by learning to program Recently subscribed and hope to see more great videos!

Imagine that feeling when even Jesus doesn't like you

I dunno if I missed where Leo had said he has been a developer for 2 decades. But I did. Holy cow. I was kinda sympathetic if he were a programming 'layman.' But TWO DECADES and he doesn't know what pull requests are?? Wow.

If someone needed to have "Free as in freedom" shouted in their face, it's this guy.

I think this guy doesn't know the meaning of "decade." I think he meant 2 minutes. He's clearly never seen the massive, decades-old proprietary company software that programmers love to complain about lol

The people who disliked this video, are LEO and his friends. LOL

> "Godot is inferior to Unity" > Proceeds to entirely forget that Unreal Engine is (mostly) FOSS 🤦‍♂️

Let's take a moment to look at the platform he posted his anti-os nonsense one. A job advert for Medium lists the following programming languages: Go (open source), Python (oh look, open source), and Javascript (open standard). They want someone with experience of Prometheus (open source), Kubernetes (yep, open source) and Apache Mesos (open source). In another ad, they want someone who has been a Linux (open source) systems administrator. I think it's safe to say that, while it isn't open source by itself, Medium is built with and hosted on open source technologies and software. He should have found a platform that doesn't make use of any open source components to post his complaints.

The best part of open source is you have all the guys that break code for fun as your QA testers

the idea of Aldi selling open-source food is this author's single greatest contribution in the entire article

I've been making music using LMMS for years now, despite having more than enough money to afford Ableton or FL if I so desired -- both of which I am also familiar with. This may just be an anecdote, but it's simply not always the price tag that makes the difference. And to leverage such a concept as the point of an entire article is a little strange. Furthermore, I don't think FOSS users conjure some safe haven for bad developers any more than the Unity game engine has.

Bro this man lost all credit when he said linux is inferior to windows and mac. These two children of Linux using their Kernels are obviously inferior.

This boi hasn't heard of Linux, Vulkan, Firefox or Chromium

Minor point - you can actually catch thieves of open source from the binaries they release. There’s ways to sift through the binaries for things like variable names that give it away. There’s probably other techniques, too.

"Linux is inferior to windows and Mac" 😎😎😎😎😎😎 Okay then I think my daily dose of RU-vid is complete now.

"Inexperience devs can contribute" "The toxic community doesn't help inexperienced devs" Bro pick one

I daily drive windows, my work machine is windows, i code in and for windows (mostly), but saying linux is inferior to windows is like saying a motorcycle is inferior to a combine harvester. 80% of our servers are linux vms. Only thing running windows is the DC and a machine running windows only services. Thats the point where i knew the author is talking out of his a**

Slightly off topic but what are some of your favorite programming blogs? It seems a little tough to find articles of substance these days

I think the writer is either completely ignorant or trolling on purpose.