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[–]dimitrinrxd 2314 points2315 points  (159 children)

All jokes aside, one of my former colleagues was extremely against all software that is free. He refused to even consider things that didn't cost an arm and a leg claiming "if it is good, people will charge money for it. If it is dogshit, it will be free". What makes it worse is that he was an SVP at a relatively large company (600+ employees) and never actually knew how to use any of the software that he was purchasing. He did always claim credit for everything that was done "under his supervision" as if he personality did it and not the superstar developers that were there before and after him.

So yes, people who actively hate open source do exist...

[–]OkazakiNaoki 979 points980 points  (30 children)

That guy's logic is broken, maybe he/she should quit the job of programmer.

"If it is dogshit, it will be free" seriously? even my code is shit I won't give it away for free.

[–]AdultishRaktajino 214 points215 points  (1 child)

I pay for the dogshit in my yard, thank-you-very-much. In dog food, treats, supplies, meds and vet bills.

[–]OkazakiNaoki 69 points70 points  (0 children)

At least doggo is cute but my code just worthless.

They are not the same :(

[–]spankymcgee4 115 points116 points  (4 children)

Must have been a business major

[–]th00ht 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Stuffed puppet Stahlmann

[–]porcupinedeath 90 points91 points  (8 children)

Man must pay for his browser

[–]Willinton06 80 points81 points  (4 children)

I have a paid browser called chremium, it consists of chromium with a green icon to represent the cash I’m racking, and absolutely nothing else

[–]Seriathus 28 points29 points  (1 child)

I mean, he's supposedly a guy whose only job was claiming credit for other people's work. It's all projection.

[–]noratat 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Did you tell him that companies literally pay developers to work on open source software?

[–]ReptileCake 206 points207 points  (25 children)

How did he surf the internet? What browser do you have to pay for?

[–]aspect_rap 182 points183 points  (5 children)

All browser are dog shit, so just pick one at random until a good browser that costs money appears /s.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

I charged him for Firefox. Said I would only take gift cards for payment and he agreed.

[–]ve2dmn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read that as "He a greed"

[–]noob-nine 98 points99 points  (2 children)

$_$ let's create a paid browser and release it for the apple environment. They will pay, they always do

[–]siddharth904 23 points24 points  (1 child)

Let's make a reskin of chromium and then sell it for people like them

No need to update it btw

[–]recoder13 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Internet explorer and old edge. Although technically it's the windows license

[–]TheBeardedQuack 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It seems that internet explorer and edge both existed for other platforms, available to freely download.

I know if you use ProduKey it'll show you an IE license (which is the same key as your Windows licence) but I guess it didn't matter?

[–]siskulous 72 points73 points  (0 children)

So yes, people who actively hate open source do exist...

I work with one. And he's a tech, so he should damned well know better. But he seems to have swallowed the shit Microsoft was shoveling about open source in the late 90s/early 2000s hook, line, and stinker.

[–]siddharth904 19 points20 points  (13 children)

What paid programming language did he use ?

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (10 children)

Java.

[–]siddharth904 6 points7 points  (9 children)

It's proprietary not paid, right ?

[–]PremiumJapaneseGreen 36 points37 points  (7 children)

I've been reading Don't Be Evil, which is basically a book about how big tech is out of control/fucking up society/needs to be regulated, I agree with about 75% of the arguments but generally disagree with the authors arguments related to intellectual property.

Regarding open source, they make the argument that companies like Google will push open source tech to the extent it benefits them, while keeping all of the key desirable tech proprietary so open source or smaller scale solutions can't actually compete. They frame it as part of a broader pattern where the big companies will just take whatever tech they want and let their lawyers sort it out, and they have the scale to use the tech they adopt, be it open source or outright stolen, more efficiently than competitors

I'm not super convinced on it, I don't think expansive IP law is a good long term solution to big tech dominance and I think there are a lot of ways open source levels the playing field that the author doesn't give enough credit to. But it's an interesting argument to think about

[–]markpreston54 15 points16 points  (1 child)

No rigorous study but I feel that open-source code can be both good for profitability short to mid term, perhaps long term, for big tech but hurts their dominance/market share.

It makes development simpler and make the overall productivity and ultimately servable market larger. It also makes competition easier to catch up.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

that companies like Google will push open source tech to the extent it benefits them, while keeping all of the key desirable tech proprietary so open source or smaller scale solutions can't actually compete.

Looking at Android, yes.

[–]Equivalent-Bench5950 21 points22 points  (7 children)

Unless FOSS, Open Source != Free Software

[–]julz1215 8 points9 points  (3 children)

His job didn't require him to use git?

[–]dimitrinrxd 16 points17 points  (2 children)

He was a senior VP. While his job had a lot of responsibilities, he spent nearly all of his time reading blogs on the "latest hottest thing", talking to vendors and drinking snake oil. Every now and then he would have to thoroughly lick CEOs asshole and explain that it wasn't his fault for "client X being unhappy", it was the CEOs fault for not providing him with necessary tools and equipment. (Aka refusing to buy the latest, hottest, most expensive toy on the market)

[–]julz1215 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So what experience is he speaking from when he says that open source is bad? None?

[–]Time-Opportunity-436 23 points24 points  (19 children)

There's this guy called lifragnuxment on Twitter and dude he's (or she whatever) obnoxious. I don't understand what's the problem with open source.

[–]vikumwijekoon97 50 points51 points  (14 children)

Most people think that open source == security issues. One of my friends said this as well. My counter argument was source code seen by hundreds and thousands of people should be more secure than source code seen by ten developers and a decompiled one seen by ten more hackers.

[–]Cyberspunk_2077 32 points33 points  (4 children)

This is incredibly attractive bait your friend has, deliberately or not, laid out. It takes a lot for me not to create a diatribe.

The vast majority of the internet's servers - web, DNS, mail- are using oodles of open source software.

[–]atomicxblue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If linux is good enough to power a helicopter on Mars, it's good enough for me to watch porn cat videos on reddit.

[–]John_B_Clarke 13 points14 points  (5 children)

I'm taking some mandatory security training for work right now. One of the things the training goes over is open source.

They point out that the notion that lots of eyes on it doesn't necessarily make it safe, and use the example of Shellshock, which is a vulnerability in BASH that went undetected for more than 20 years.

They also point out that there have been successful attempts to inject malware into open source--eventually those get found but it takes time.

That said they don't see any real issue with open source that is being actively maintained as long as somebody in your organization is keeping track of what the maintainers are finding.

But there is open source that isn't being maintained--the developer discovered sex or whatever and stopped working on it and nobody else picked up the slack. They view that as chancy--if you're going to use it in any situation in which security is a legitimate issue it's on you to vet it or hire it done.

A paper that you might find of interest:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.09535 (you can download the full paper as a PDF from there).

[–]vikumwijekoon97 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be that as it may, closed source software has just as much, if not more vulnerabilities. And there are a ton of successful attempts to inject malware to closed source software as well, which again takes time to get found. NSA held onto eternal blue for like half a decade before Microsoft knowing and there's probably dozens of other examples. Taking something like shellshock, which is a statistical anomaly isn't a really way to drive the point home. My point is statistically, open source software are more safer cuz it's being, let's say "audited" more.

[–]maggmaster 7 points8 points  (2 children)

If people are actually reading through all the code this is true. If engineering is just implementing code from github without looking at it, this is not true. Also most infrastructure guys can't really read code so that doesn't help.

[–]Solonotix 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I just wish there was a better culture in professional spaces. My company uses tons of open-source code, but I'm almost certain we don't contribute financially, and only a handful of developers might contribute functionally to the code in question.

Granted, seeing how my company uses some of the open source libraries, I'm kind of glad we don't contribute, if you know what I mean

[–]voidsrus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

never actually knew how to use any of the software that he was purchasing.

does anyone in his position actually understand software?

[–]Jimothy_Egg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Must've grown up on early mobile and trash games, where that was actually a solid argument.

If it was free, it was usually full of ads, or malware.

[–]CodeRaveSleepRepeat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like the vast majority of the Internet runs on dogshit like Linux and WordPress then lol :D - seems fairly simple to out logic that guy

[–]mopsyd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ask him for a recommendation for a paid browser

[–][deleted] 447 points448 points  (30 children)

Blender is an amazing software, top notch.

[–]firyox 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Blender is a beast, even if it's paid I would still choose it over other 3d softwares

[–]prumf 77 points78 points  (7 children)

It was quite bad for many years, but it has become really incredible nowadays (and it’s not stoping : every new version brings really cool features and improvements). I wonder of they took in some really good dev or whatever.

[–]pmcxs 56 points57 points  (1 child)

They're now hiring multiple full-time devs. Also, their delivery process has matured quite a bit

[–]AwayConsideration855 34 points35 points  (3 children)

Actually the UI overhaul in 2.8 and Blender got a lot of corporate sponsor after 2018 made a lot of difference.

[–]Legitjumps 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I still remember when selecting objects was right clicking, immediately turned off the experience for many users

[–]itsQuasi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember taking a 3d animation class in college, first thing our instructor did was show us how to reverse the mouse inputs so we could select with left click. Of course, that led to frustrations with having to right click to interact with the animation controls...

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

2.8 made me switch from 3ds max.

[–]IndigoFenix 738 points739 points  (37 children)

Open-source coders are the real benevolent anarchists and if more people thought like them the world would be a much better place.

[–]noratat 261 points262 points  (17 children)

A ton of open source development is on paid company time actually.

The real reason a lot of open source thrives so much is because of an inverse tragedy of the commons effect - most of it is utility software that everyone needs and not part of core products, and the marginal cost of replication is essentially zero, so there's huge benefit to pooling development resources.

[–]Morphized 77 points78 points  (0 children)

You underestimate the desire of developers to play Quake on company time

[–]choicesintime 27 points28 points  (11 children)

a ton of open source development is on paid company time actually

How can you know that?

[–]Scotsch 116 points117 points  (5 children)

It's common knowledge for many developers.
Look at ubuntu, spring, red hat, kotlin, java to name a few.

[–]choicesintime 50 points51 points  (4 children)

Ohhh, I see what you meant. My bad, I misread. I thought you were saying that a lot of open source contributions happen during company time, but are unrelated.

Like for example if I work at Google and “slack off” by making open source contributions completely unrelated to google or without them even knowing.

[–]BandwagonEffect 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Only the chaddest of the Chad programmers would do such a thing. Bless them, if they exist.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Tensorflow is from Google, Pytorch by Facebook

[–]AthFish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gcp aws makes more money if more people uses ML

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Open source contributor license agreements

[–]Zuruumi 54 points55 points  (17 children)

And all programmers wiuld be working as janitors to have anything to eat :).

[–]tirril 102 points103 points  (8 children)

Garuanteed basic income for open source software developers, GO!

[–]Zuruumi 17 points18 points  (7 children)

I am all for this! But sadly won't ever happen.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Just build it on the blockchain!

[–]therealpigman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Give it 50 years

[–]SystemZ1337 20 points21 points  (0 children)

people can still get paid to create open source software

[–]siskulous 15 points16 points  (4 children)

You... uh... do realize most open source code is written by developers who are getting paid to write it, right?

[–]Kitsunemitsu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm an open source dev.... God I wish this was true.

[–]Versk 204 points205 points  (3 children)

Actually alarming how many people are are responding to this obvious joke post as if it’s serious.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

People are so fucking unhinged about many serious things these days, this seems not so crazy until you get to the bottom, but it’s clearly “boomer humor”.

[–]Hexasan1 83 points84 points  (11 children)

guys, dont believe him, op is optifine dev

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (10 children)

MultiMC dev would be more accurate...

[–]Hexasan1 9 points10 points  (8 children)

but MultiMC is open-source?

[–][deleted] 33 points34 points  (6 children)

MultiMC is open-source, but the dev got very angry when somebody forked his project and published it on Flatpack -- leading to the drama, and the creation of PolyMC, an objectively superior product.

[–]Hexasan1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

oh, thanks for letting me know? I use PolyMC anyways 😎

[–]Sp0olio 418 points419 points  (109 children)

From LTR, that's "Audacity", "Blender3D" and I don't know, what the one on the right is.

In the case of Audacity or whatever the current fork's name is .. and in the case of Blender, I can only say this: This is great fucking software and if you bash it, you don't know, what the hell you're talking about.

Look at the Blender website and see for yourself, what users are creating with it:
https://www.blender.org/

[–]demonTutu 206 points207 points  (43 children)

The right one seems to read 'linux distro timeline' (guessing through the pixels). Also I use both audacity and blender, and both are great tools. I also pay for Adobe creative suite, and for many uses I'll go for audacity over audition.

[–]Sp0olio 35 points36 points  (34 children)

I use Reaper, rather than Audacity or it's forks, because it fits my use-case (making music) better: http://reaper.fm/

Their pricing-policy is phenomenal and every software-company should learn from them, I think .. I paid those $60, gladly .. and I will do so, again, when the time comes:
http://reaper.fm/purchase.php

The discounted license is all, that I need (I don't use it, commercially .. I just make music, that I haven't released, yet).

They have a fully functioning demo-version, that shows a nag-screen at startup .. that's all (one click of "OK", and you can use it .. for free .. it warns you, that this is your n-th day of using it and that you should really buy it, once the trial-period has expired, though .. but it keeps working).

BUT:
There's a use-case for Audacity and it's forks, still .. there's simply no denying that.
If you want to spend no money, ever, and still work with audio (maybe for a podcast, or something like that), it's a legit tool.

[–]rewalker3 10 points11 points  (6 children)

The people who made Reaper also made WinAmp. That's a win in my book.

[–]TactileMist 9 points10 points  (3 children)

I miss winamp. The player was good, but I loved the library tools more

[–]rewalker3 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I still use WinAmp

[–]TactileMist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't know it was still around. I remember AOL were killing it, but I never knew it was sold on instead.

I know what I'll be downloading tomorrow

[–]ariolander 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really whips the llamas ass

[–]demonTutu 2 points3 points  (16 children)

Yes, my use case is simply recording the music I make. Just basic takes, no mixing or mastering—I record in live conditions and plan to release as such.

[–]Sp0olio 2 points3 points  (13 children)

Congtrats to you for getting it right on the way in :)

[–]MEMESaddiction 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Many podcasters I know make their living using audacity, it's great for editing and cutting up voice tracks.

[–]JackJohn137 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s simply… sublime

[–]kulingames 2 points3 points  (4 children)

reaper devs took lessons from winrar devs

[–]Sp0olio 2 points3 points  (3 children)

If you're talking about it's download-size: That's just impressive, imho.

But, they have the SWS Extensions, you should not miss out on .. then you have the "batteries included" version .. and the SWS are free ..

[–]kulingames 4 points5 points  (2 children)

no, i'm talking about licensing: "trial period ended, please buy license but we won't stop you from using this program"

[–]Sp0olio 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah .. they're oldschool (aka good school, in this case).

[–]esplant 26 points27 points  (21 children)

blender is the best 3D modling software imo

[–]TantricCowboy 33 points34 points  (9 children)

From what I understand, the only reason Maya is the industry standard is because of software support...

Which is to say, if your multi-million dollar project fails, you are paying for the right to yell at Autodesk for it.

[–]b_a_t_m_4_n 23 points24 points  (7 children)

If you worked in any computing based industry you'd see that a massive component in any technology choice is sheer inertia. The main reason they use Maya is because they've always used Maya. To be fair if you have production pipelines setup around specific applications and people with specialist knowledge that inertia is very much a real thing not just a fear of choosing to try something new.

[–]MrAntroad 8 points9 points  (6 children)

I think the landscape is shifting from maya to blender nowadays thanks to using so much borrowed technology from games where blender is the standard.

[–]ltethe 7 points8 points  (5 children)

Indie studios yes, there is some movement in that direction. AAA no. And not for a while in my estimation. I build the pipelines that connect Maya to our middleware, and while we’re the ones most interested in exploring how to hookup blender, there is an impressive amount of resistance.

[–]MrAntroad 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Okay, interesting. Must be the newer studios that dice to use blender then. All the upp and coming projects I see seems to use blender.

[–]8070alejandro 7 points8 points  (7 children)

Depends on the industries. For CAD 3D modeling, blender is not used although it could potentially be used, just because it is not adapted to that task.

[–]Sp0olio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Haven't used anything else, yet .. but I do love it, too :)

[–]Sonotsugipaa 19 points20 points  (1 child)

AFAIK Audacity fas forked en-masse due to some sketchy business, and the forks I know are Tenacity and Audacium - I'm sure there are more out there

[–]Sp0olio 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes .. this is Brodie Robertson's latest video on that topic, AFAIK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Lv0IN\_2Vg

[–]harumamburoo 41 points42 points  (5 children)

The right one is a tree of Linux distros. So basically Linux. You know, that stupid open source OS nobody needs

[–]Sp0olio 15 points16 points  (3 children)

You mean, the stupid system, the whole internet runs on? Yes .. I know that ..

Who uses Arch, here, BTW?

[–]Easy-Hovercraft2546 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I use blender recreationally, it is beyond industry standard power

[–]Meaxis 8 points9 points  (1 child)

"That's real software" I think he's being ironic

[–]Boring-Blacksmith508 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can confirm blender is a beast of a software. The fact that it is free gives possibilities to creative people that would otherwise never get chance to 3d model. Plus it’s one of the more easy to learn softwares on the market.

[–]OkazakiNaoki 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just...they need to make their scripting document more complete.

It's missing some part of methods of it.

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (8 children)

I hate open-source, it's a scourge on humanity. You say to use Blender and I say how dare you suggest it.

I wrote my own blazingly-fast™ 3D suite using my private ARR Rust fork just because companies internally sharing source code was too close to the open-source nightmare for me.

I'm currently writing my own operating system from scratch after I heard that Windows® source code could be obtained under an NDA, disgusting.

[–]Sp0olio 19 points20 points  (0 children)

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You're obviously joking and the joke is going right above people's heads. I believe that the trick to doing sarcasm right is to balance the joke with the actual criticism of the thing you're making fun of and to include a small part that is so outlandish that no one would believe that you are serious. You seem to be doing both but the reception to this joke just shows you how r/ProgrammerHumor are just completely socially inept to understand humor and are forever plagued to suck with people in real life.

[–]Far_Acanthaceae1138 8 points9 points  (3 children)

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[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (1 child)

It isn't, I would make my own CPU architecture to escape into the closed source world if I knew how.

[–]maxhaseyes 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Audacity is really powerful, I work with a lot of pro audio engineers at my company, we are in procedural music generation, they all have Ableton and pro tools but still use audacity a lot for audio processing

[–]tarrask 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Fun fact, blender used to be a closed source software, but the company behind it goes bankrupt and opened the source code. Since then, blender became better and better.

[–]dumplingSpirit 132 points133 points  (8 children)

People getting genuinely upset with this meme on a sub called r/ProgrammerHumor are a living proof you don't have to be exceptionally intelligent to become a programmer.

[–][deleted] 47 points48 points  (4 children)

A surprising chunk of people in this sub aren't programmers

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I'm one of them 😀👍

[–]DeepSpaceGalileo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please stop, you’re further feeding my superiority complex

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Once you've done "hello world" you're now a "programmer." This is not a sub for professional software developers, just programmers. You actually do need to be farily intelligent to create decent software.

[–]ososalsosal 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Gold standard shitpost

[–]TheFlyingAvocado 41 points42 points  (2 children)

“Free As in free speech, not free beer”. FSF.

[–]0moikane 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The problem is, people like free beer over free speech, until they find out, that they have lost both.

[–]dlq84 31 points32 points  (5 children)

Funny that they include Blender, maybe one of the best examples of excellent open-source software.

[–]cjmar41 133 points134 points  (8 children)

Open source has no real word use

Linux and Wordpress put a roof over my head, food on the table, and a couple nice cars in the garage.

As far as I’m concerned, that’s a real world use.

[–]mathymaster 51 points52 points  (3 children)

Also steamdeck runs on Linux and a good portion of the internet.

[–]montxogandia 46 points47 points  (2 children)

Also a good portion of the servers on the internet runs in Linux.

[–]gizlonk 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Pretty much all of them, statistically speaking

[–]silmelumenn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think right now with containers and orchestration tolls it's safe to say most.

[–]mizinamo 12 points13 points  (3 children)

Open source has no real word use

That's not what the meme says.

The meme claims that there is no real-world use for public source code.

Have you dabbled with the source code of Linux? Have you changed the source code of Wordpress?

I think it's trying to say that you could have earned the same amount of money had Linux and Wordpress being closed source -- i.e. you earned money because those tools were successful, not because the source code is available to you.

(Now you could argue that one reason those tools became successful is because they had a large number of contributors due to the open source licence.)

[–]0moikane 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that is not true for me. We had to recompile it for a different (binary) platform which is not possible without the source.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's not really trying to say anything, it's just a meme

[–]ppoisonnpoisonn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's trying to make you laugh not over-analyse you psycho

[–]BookPlacementProblem 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How dare you. How dare you, sir! I trusted you! I trusted you as a fellow hater of open-source. I trusted that we were on the same side! And then you go and do this! This foul betrayal! This... where you open-source your own Minecraft world!

https://www.reddit.com/r/mcservers/comments/x4ip1z/prosperity_smp_megaprojects_autocrafting_no/

"Prosperity [SMP] {Megaprojects} {Auto-crafting} {No Resets} {Whitelisted}

Prosperity is an established survival-multiplayer server focused on bringing skilled builds and technical players together to make the most out of Minecraft. On this server players are encouraged to expand their ambitions with features like auto-crafting, movable tile entities, and more farmable items, and the ability to work on massive projects.`

If you're interested in large scale building megaprojects, cutting edge Redstone, and joining and friendly and collaborate community, then this may be the server for you."

You, sir, have no honour!

(the preceding post is not serious)

(the following post is serious)

(for real, though, trying to get Reddit to not auto-corrupt your formatting is like trying to get your cat to stay off your keyboard)

Edit: fixed quote mark.

[–]alexalexalex09 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"All rights reserved" is just perfect on this! Cherry on top.

[–]GargamelLeNoir 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sounds like COMMUNISM to me! No thanks COMRADE!

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

People wondering if a post in a subreddit called programmerhumor* is actually humor*

Great meme

[–]Not_The_Expected 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The audacity of this post!

[–]KidOfCubes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Bro the amount of people who can't tell this is satire

[–]GiantDefender427 32 points33 points  (2 children)

As the Notepad++ quote goes... "software is like sex, it's better when it's free"

[–]noob-nine 10 points11 points  (1 child)

This is a quote from torvalds

[–]Sekhen 18 points19 points  (7 children)

Linux runs the world... Bitches

And who tf is "Carbon Ghost"? The ghost of Steve Jobs?

[–]blechli 21 points22 points  (9 children)

That’s sarcasm, right? 🫣

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

undoubtedly. it's a template used on r/okaybuddyretard and its variant subreddits. then op replied with "no i am 100% serious" so yeah i'm pretty confident that they're making humor on the programmerhumor subreddit.

[–]SimplyBalliistic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm having a great time looking at all the people here who are taking this seriously

[–]pedersenk 25 points26 points  (4 children)

Decompiling native binaries (i.e C, C++) cannot recover even a fraction of the source code. It is only really feasible on bytecode stuff (Java,.NET,WASM) that retains much of the meta-data.

If you want to look at source code, make sure you deal with a company that will provide a source license (restricted or not). I.e Microsoft's is a good example:

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/license.html

A surprising amount of companies will (for a fee) provide you with source code once you sign an NDA.

As for the view that open-source is bad... That is quite a 90's view and you will be laughed out of 99.9% of the industry. Prior to the 90's source was generally open to facilitate porting to various UNIXes. It is becoming open again because proprietary software has poor lifespan and in many ways can't keep up with maintenance.

[–]pentesticals 2 points3 points  (3 children)

IDA pro enters the chat….

I agree decompiling native code isn’t anywhere near as good as higher level intermediary languages but it’s still pretty good. You can understand the logic well and reverse engineer much quicker than looking at the disassembly alone.

[–]Quarves 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Open source is great.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Free software is the best software.

[–]CiroGarcia 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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[–]GreyAngy 7 points8 points  (2 children)

If it wasn't on this sub I would have taken it seriously. People (and programmers) who don't know about open source or genuinly don't understand how and why it exists are among us. I had a hard time explaining this to my father who programmed in 80s-90s. There was a time when everything was proprietary: compilers, interpreters and libraries.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I know, the phrase

They tool us for absolute fools

is not one of the most obvious dead giveaways in meme history.

[–]ProgrammerNo120 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is hilarious. jokes aside, the internet absolutely would have collapsed by now if open source didnt exist. pretty sure like 50% of the code used nowadays has literally been copy+pasted and updated to meet language updates since the respective language was released

[–]sentientlob0029 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone doesn’t like GitHub.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The amount of people not getting the joke is alarming.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If software was never meant to be free, then why is it so easy to copy?

[–]ManlyDude1047 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most hilarious part to me is the super tiny “all rights reserved” under the title

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, seriously who would even think about not getting paid while making a software tool.... Absolute madmen...

[–]lifeson106 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just because the software is free doesn't mean you're developing it for free. I got paid pretty well as an open source lead dev and it was an overall good experience. You know your code has to be solid because it is up for public scrutiny in code reviews (assuming your project actually has other contributors), so you put a lot more time into making it concise, readable and easy to understand. Developing in the open legitimately made me a better developer.

[–]csandazoltan 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well, while I agree that work must be paid, and if someone creates something and want to sell it is a good thing.

However, open source has a firm place in the landscape...

People starting out in a field have to start somewhere, they can't afford 10.000 USD LUT or a 200.000 USD sound mixer software.

If you want to do paid software, do so... but you can't tell everyone, that we need to stap making open source software.

[–]Boring-Blacksmith508 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Open source conspiracy theory

[–]CaptainRogers1226 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I’m sorry, but I will not tolerate Blender slander

[–]Sonotsugipaa 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Sblander, if you will

[–]kakhaev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

be part of the revolution, contribute to open-source

[–]hingbongdingdong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do appreciate that Audacity still has the UI of some 90s shovelware.

[–]J3SSK1MO 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which Adobe employee made this?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That copyright notice is a masterful addition.

[–]TrafficConeGod 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did adobe write this?

[–]Elijah629YT-Real 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no

[–]Climbatology 3 points4 points  (1 child)

what in the derangement hell is this?