-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:21:27 -0800 Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2016-02-05 7:43 GMT-08:00 Fabio Pesari <[email protected]>: > > Yes, I totally forgot about Blender! Or it subconsciously prompted > > me to start this thread; in either case, Blender is arguably one of > > the best free programs around (in several categories) and proof > > that this approach can offer quality software pretty quickly. > > I think the fact that Ton Roosendaal, the original developer of > Blender, led this liberation effort and the transformation into a > nonprofit should not be underestimated. This is a matter of > principled leadership, deep technical knowledge, and deep knowledge of > the social and technical community around Blender. > > It would be relatively easy to throw money at closed source projects > that seem worthwhile, only to see the resulting free software whither, > because nobody wants to bother getting through the familiarization, > community building and technical debt cleanup efforts required to > build a vibrant community. A year or two later, you might not even get > working packages for the latest distro anymore because some outdated > library dependency is missing. > > That is not to say that I find the idea inherently flawed, far from > it! But I think one would need to identify partners _within_ > commercial software efforts who are more interested in joining the > liberation efforts relevant to their software packages than in making > a quick buck. To me, this would seem to be a good criterion to narrow > down the set of possible packages to prioritize. > > Warmly, > > Erik > > Erik makes a very valid point actually - just throwing money at the initial freeing effort might get us free code, but it won't be *useful* free code unless we can either keep chucking money at it to keep it maintainer, or unless someone actually wants to maintain it (and loves it enough to do so...). - -- Koz Ross <[email protected]> www.retro-freedom.nz If you aren't using GPG, you should be! https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en. *** Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for why. *** Proud member of the Open Wireless Movement. Find out more at https://openwireless.org/ *** Proud member of Peers, at http://peers.community/ . We grow freedom. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWtTxSAAoJEJARVr/lAw1AbS0H/0NRFNmOqpOxTY1acD5znnt0 XMPxxDcTpCNHuiYNQMmgcOsheAkBJZ5r6OF+3Ljq/RIiEvLzB2SYek5b0H4aJHwG njEMAC0ARa1mw+PVZA54VbHc8+qREcNnxHv0ofjVeED9vlV6CAo4x/N1pZgZ8EpZ gEYHphtrUOQ8X9oqM8poUGzosub1IkB4zaprc+kE4/M1TKuCnD8IB/QGVXpHcW5p g21OUC6MDBcgMzAzkQpmyEMci/UmlaPI+R2GIQ1WEacXNIMvPWDwI6laJI85pmdg kh/eN57LGLGZCHkLlA+NoG5+ypZ1+HJlV8bipYTcFaQo2IwlE1/Go5CKu+k69es= =Ekhw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
