You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@bunny @mcc @LordCaramac @Lenni @RogerBW On the first pass, I wanted to modify the original source as little as possible.

[crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange]

@tsukaj @dbat @mcc

Ah, I guess that makes sense?

[dmaonr@mastodon.online]

@LordCaramac The oldest liveCD I could find was Debian5 from 2009. there are 3 binaries in the tgz. all from 1998!. one is windows the other two are linux. I didn't try compiling. the binary src/sapphire maybe works? I don't know what I am looking at.

old debian: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@dmaonR I might try using the .exe with Wine. I sometimes use windows binaries from around the turn of the millennium with Wine.

[r4d10_411310p47hy@freeradical.zone]

@mcc I use open source software because it's better. Often it's better for the reason you are posting, often it's just higher quality software. Linux for example, is vastly superior to Windows and OSX. 90% of what I use computers for wouldn't even be possible on those operating systems. I have access to expansive open source code libraries that make my computing experience basically what I can imagine doing with a computer.

[koteisaev@mastodon.online]

@mcc Open-source software can cease to exist anytime too - due maintainers burnout under burden of unpaid work, for example. Or by sme other reasons. More chances if project managed by some group of people/organization as foundation with proper measures for longevity.

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@mcc I use open source software because I don't trust code I'm not allowed to read.

[gamingwolf@mstdn.games]

@h5e @BoredomFestival

Howdy, were you looking for Flashpoint Archive?

[ministerofimpediments@mastodon.social]

@mcc ehh…not really? Some of it is definitely better. Quite a lot of backend software is both open source. Not just that either. There are a lot of instances where you use open source because it’s the best thing out there. I mean I get where you are coming from, but credit where it’s due. IBM doesn’t buy Redhat because it’s second best. Open source is under funded, under appreciated, and to a large extent out of sight, but there is real quality/talent/ideas there.

[dpflug@hachyderm.io]

@attilakinali
As seen in this thread, actually
@RogerBW @LordCaramac @mcc

[rperezrosario@mastodon.social]

@mcc I developed a web site very early in my career using Future Splash Animator. In some ways the technology was way ahead of its time.

[themooserooster@mastodon.social]

@mcc Funny, It was exactly this kind of rug pull by Adobe about Flash that made me into an open source/Linux crank about 15 years ago.

[jedi@bolha.us]

@koteisaev @mcc the single fact that the source code is available means that if the project was abandoned someone, someday, can pick up where it had stopped.

I agree this is not the case all the time, but the probability for this to happen is a lot higher than a closed source project to be handed to another company / team.

[dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tsukaj @mcc @crankylinuxuser yeah, agreeing with post. Miss 90s software and Flash. Amen in this way might be a localism.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@tsukaj @crankylinuxuser @dbat I am from the United States South and immediately understood what you meant

[rabadi@mastodon.social]

Yeah, well. I use open source software because most that I use are better.

So, in my case, they usually are.

[alys@selfy.army]

@BoloMKXXVIII i wouldn't go quite that far (there is some closed-source software i'm okay with), but the quality has definitely improved over time. e.g., basic stuff used to be a lot harder to get working on linux.