• TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social
    2·
    1 month ago

    OpenOffice was a really solid Microsoft Office rival, and FOSS to boot. Made by Sun Microsystems, of course, and then ruined by Oracle (of course).

    Thankfully LibreOffice was forked from it and is still going strong as a very capable suite of document tools. And OpenOffice is basically dead, womp womp.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 month ago

      Recently tried MS Office apps for the first time in 8 or so years. Somehow they made them less intuitive than even ribbon days. They use a dark pattern save dialog that makes it easy to accidentally save to OneDrive, and if you have OneDrive disabled or uninstalled, there’s an always present icon in the title bar of the main edit window that says “autosave off” even though autosave is on.

      Went right back to LibreOffice after one document and one spreadsheet.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      My big question is, why not fork the original first and commercialize that instead. So much forking around the wrong ways! /s

      • bitwolf@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 month ago

        iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.

        Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into

        • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          The funny thing is the whole commercialization process started with one of the future partners messaging the project lead out of the blue on LinkedIn. I don’t know about you, but taking ideas from a random LinkedIn user doesn’t strike me as good business sense.

          Then again, getting something out of your years of unpaid volunteer work must be incredibly tempting, given how many open source projects have sold out over the years. At least it was to form an actual legitimate company this time, unlike when SuperSU (the Android root solution before Magisk came along) sold themselves to a scummy foreign ad company. That one still ranks as the all time top WTF sale.

      • Comment105@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 month ago

        Because business majors only know how to exploit good things that would be better off without them.

        If the good thing is left to just be better off without them – while they fuck around with a separate thing – then people will never be interested in the business majors’ product.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          1 month ago

          My impression of business majors is that they get hired by people who have to use a search engine to know who to hire.

          • Comment105@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 month ago

            Business majors just get more authority than they ought to. They should be treated more like secretaries and advisors in most cases, not bosses.

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        MBAs love taking an existing brand and sucking whatever value they can extract. Like chupacabras but for functioning and useful products.

  • Zangoose@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    Audacity was the first one I thought of.

    Or MultiMC, PolyMC, the Sodium mod, or the original Minecraft Forge.

    (Minecraft community devs need to stop having drama lmao)

    • Korne127@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      I love how well the PolyMC -> PrismLauncher transition went. It’s great that the asshole owning it didn’t just spew transphobic hate, but also removed the contribution rights to all other people, leading them to immediately flock to an alternative.

      • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        I actually had to look it up as I couldn’t remember why I made the first switch. PolyMC was forked from MultiMC after they dropped third-party modpack support. Then there was some drama with one of the devs of PolyMC, spawning Prism Launcher

    • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      It has been on my list to figure out how to move to forgejo, need to do it soon before the migration process breaks or gets awful.

      • Opisek@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        If you’re using docker: change your image name from gitea to forgejo. Repull. Done. Baremetal should be just as simple. Migrations are as easy as leaving all the data in-place and changing the binary at this moment in time.

  • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.

    Also OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, Android (AOSP) (soft forked to LineageOS and GrapheneOS, but no hard fork)

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 month ago

      What’s the difference between a soft fork and a hard fork, besides being careful with your teeth?

      • Brahvim Bhaktvatsal@lemmy.kde.socialisiZulu
        2·
        1 month ago

        DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.

        DuckStation is an emulator for some Sony PlayStation console. PS2, I think Thanks to [email protected] I know that it was a PS1 emulator. This software used to be given to users under the GPLv3 license, which grants freedoms such as distribution of the source code of the software (DuckStation) for no extra cost (well, DuckStation also costs no money! …so, you get to eat the cake and learn its recipe too, for free!).

        …Now they’ve switched to a license which allows you to see the source code, but does not grant you rights over the source code that GPLv3 did (which is essentially ANYTHING as long as you publicize everything you make with the source code, under the GPLv3 license also - changes to the code, new software that uses any portion of the code, anything you make with it).

        OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, and Android (the “Android Open-Source Project”) have also done this in the past.

        Knowing this stuff on Free, Libre, and Open-Source (“FLOSS”) platforms like Lemmy is almost necessary given that they’re built on these principles. Please get acquainted with them.