How to put it through: Muse score, as well as Audacity, are disappointments to me - because they used to be open source.
Having high standard free software alternatives is great for competition, because it means you won’t be surcharged for every little feature. It sets a bar for how much vendors can actually charge.
That being said, we live in a capitalist world and better this guy works on what he loves rather than doing his project part time and working some miserable dead end dev job.
I also hate PDFs, but less because of its ancient specs, and more for the fact that it’s absolutely proprietary.
I understand there is now a company behind them driving the direction, but are they not still open source? If the community feels they lost their way couldn’t we split?
In this day of age, it’s easier than ever to fork - thanks to AI. But open source isn’t open source isn’t open source.
MOT license, BSD license, Apache license, GNU license, etc - the worst being “source available”, whereby the license still requires you to subscribe or pay for a service.
Generally the Muse Score debacle was a problem of open source freemium software - whereby important functionality was only found in the proprietary commercial binary blob.
It’s “fake it until you make it open source”.
A lot of the nuance may be going over my head but I appreciate the insight into your view.
