OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration

Re:OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration by poopsmithe on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:13AM (#29682282)

Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS) in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe that Streamlabs == OBS.

On OBS github, contributors asked SLOBS to stop doing that, and Streamlabs declined.

Streamer community outrage ensued via Twitter. Large exodus of SLOBS users to OBS. Streamlabs publicly apologized a few days later, and renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio.

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Re:OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration by saynay on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:53AM (#29684713)

There was a few other things that tied in to the anger. It turned out Streamlabs had released a series of products that each exactly mirrored the functionality of other popular projects, including in one case stealing the entire product page (including user reviews) and replacing the product name with the Streamlabs version. Just a long series of exceedingly blatant copying and theft.

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Re:OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration by NylaTheWolf on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:31PM (#29710426)

wait seriously? I knew they copied OBS but not other products!

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Re:OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration by uyt on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:00AM (#29683809)

>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio

Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name. Which would've been a huge shame to open source software. Glad stuff worked out.

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Re:OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration by wizardcm on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:44PM (#29688154)

They renamed it to Streamlabs Desktop. Streamlabs Studio is a separate (newer) product.

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