• 1984@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

    But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

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      1 hour ago

      There is something to be said about continuous community effort. Projects tend to continue even with original developers absent, sometimes for a very long time.

      One of my favourite games is STALKER, and boy does it hold a story and history behind the community. The eurojank game that was modded into an AAA looking survival game that was even published to GOG (STALKER GAMMA). Such project could’ve probably costed millions for a studio. Coincidentally, watched this video today, which briefly tells the history too: https://youtu.be/5C80TWlTC1o