Re:Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open ...
by Mikeb85 on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:18AM
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Some OSS advocates get too caught up in "community" and feelings. At the end of the day OSS is only about the licence. It's just about code ownership. Everything else is noise.
As long as it's an OSS license it's good to go.
Also, Blender used to be a commercial, closed source project (a very long time ago). Look how it's grown.
Re:Open 3D Foundation announces first major release of Open ...
by slimsag on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:23AM
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As long as the code does what you want, you don't hope to receive any advice on how to do things, you expect no help in debugging the issues you encounter, and you don't expect to collaborate with others building on top of the same platform - then yep, community and momentum doesn't matter.
The game failures I highlighted call into question whether or not Amazon Game Studios produces high quality software, and by extension whether or not O3DE is likely to be high quality.
Just look at the contributors to O3DE and search for "AMZN", nearly every contributor is an Amazon employee[0].
Your argument seems to be that as long as the code is open source, the rest doesn't matter. It does.
My intent isn't to shit on people's work, but rather to call out that to me this feels far from some "open" initiative like Blender, GIMP, the Linux Kernel, etc. It feels more like how Android is "open source".
[0] https://github.com/o3de/o3de/graphs/contributors