• TheHarpyEagle@pawb.social
    2·
    7 days 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·
      6 days 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.

  • Zangoose@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days 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·
      7 days 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·
        7 days 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

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days 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·
      7 days ago

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

      • Comment105@lemm.ee
        1·
        7 days 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
          1·
          2 days 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
            1·
            2 days 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·
        7 days ago

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

  • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
    0·
    7 days 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·
      6 days ago

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

      • Brahvim Bhaktvatsal@lemmy.kde.socialisiZulu
        1·
        7 days 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. 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.