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Re:A conference about software you can love by klyrs on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:02PM (#31545247)
Yeah, I don't think I really made my point well. Mudslinging sucks. "We're not like those guys because they're doing this shit thing and we're doing this awesome thing" is 100% suckier than saying "We're doing this awesome thing." It's kayfabe in an article that literally complains about kayfabe. Feuds make good drama, but bad ecosystems. I think Andy learned that lesson saying (IMO) true things about the V language. Only commenting here because I love zig and want it to be awesome.
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Re:A conference about software you can love by kristoff_it on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:48AM (#31546757)
If you want to see it as a keyfabe then fine, but from my perspective the ones that want to sell you an idea by only saying feel-good things, are marketing departments. I've experienced first hand[1] how shitty is the relationship between big tech and open source is, and I hold the FSF partially responsible for it. Had it done a better job at its stated mission[2], maybe things would be better today.

[1] https://kristoff.it/blog/the-open-source-game/

[2] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom.

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Re:A conference about software you can love by nyberg on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:27AM (#31547763)
And what is SYCL if not marketing? It's a conference which sells the idea that we can make better software for the end user which is marketing just without the freedom aspect of a user being able to modify and study software.

What should the FSF have done to do a better job? It's easy to say that some entity hasn't done enough without being in the same position and without providing an alternative solution.

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Re:A conference about software you can love by kristoff_it on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:43PM (#31551636)
It's hard to provide an alternate solution if the moment you try to start something people tell you that it's all just marketing :^)

We at the Zig Software Foundation for now are doing a reasonably good job at supporting our FOSS project by paying our contributors and by being as transparent as we can with the public (eg we're a 501(c)(3) non profit organization).

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Re:A conference about software you can love by nyberg on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:41PM (#31553152)
I don't see how the Zig Software Foundation is related to SYCL not mainly marketing a concept.

Note, there's nothing wrong with marketing and providing courses (something which the FSF also provides), it's just the act of promoting it while complaining about another organization not having "done enough" that has done much more within this space over the years.

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