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Re:Vulkan Memory Allocator on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:27AM (#27920000)
A lot of excuses when we know true love knows no boundaries. If they wanted to make it happen, it would be a standard by now. Open source folks would have worked for free to make it happen (after they made sure it wasn't yet another attempt to destroy open source and covered all their bases).
Re:Vulkan Memory Allocator on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:17PM (#27908224)
Microsoft had plenty of time, before and after they started their "Microsoft loves open source" marketing campaign, to open source it or standardize it in some form. It's core to their vendor lock-in strategy so it will never happen. Makes you wonder why they are buying so many Vulkan related companies and game studios.
Re:Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:33PM (#23993405)
I've read all the release notes and I couldn't find anything that wasn't upstream sync or redistribution, packaging, irrelevant stuff.

I just want to understand what they delivered since June, 2019. Could you name a couple of examples?

Re:Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:29PM (#23992689)
GIMP is ...not very good. Fixing the UI and UX wouldn't change that. Compared to GIMP, as a project, Krita is in another dimension.

If any software is going to become a successful FLOSS Photoshop replacement it's either Krita (if they decide to go that route instead of just painting) in a few years, a new open source project with an impressive MVP (like Olive the video editor, to Adobe Premiere), or some kind of miracle like one of their commercial competitors deciding to open source it.

Re:Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:22PM (#23992653)
Didn't they received a lot of funding? What features did they implement that are not present in GIMP?
Re:Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later) on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:02PM (#23797061)
> I use GNOME Wayland and I have x/y/z problem!

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#i-use-gnome-wayla...

> Is GNOME actively sabotaging the Linux Desktop?

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#Is_GNOME_actively...