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[–] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    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.

    MIT 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".

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