Everything is a trojan until proven otherwise. With closed source, it's next to impossible to prove otherwise.
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protecting code from being read by programmers is like a singer never recording their voice to share with others
Recorded voices are being copied by AI.
idgaf about copying machines, that's life
they will never be able to copy creativity, that requires suffering and luck
If you can't easily monetize creativity, you'll end up with less people being creative because they'll be busy with a day job.
that's why we have lightning network - this enables legit micropayments to monetise work directly
i pay for my relays and media hosting this way and i'd pay this way for a really polished OS as well this way, sadly this OS (zorin) has a pay option but not bitcoin or LN, which is partly why i have decided not to, and the value add isn't interesting to me
but i pay for my intellij IDEA and it's great, and they are very interactive in the support system, gave me a reasonable workaround for an issue i was having with titlebars
Well, being paid for creating issues and then heroically solving them is a part of a lot of modern business model.
oh, the CSD thing is an epic pain in the arse on linux in general, and the workaround costs me about 30 vertical pixels in exchange for the window titlebar responding to the mutter click events (i have middle click lower, so this makes it one click to switch between two maximised windows)
but yes, they call them features but most of the time they are bugs for a long time
If you do need something as bloated as IDEA, then something is wrong from the start.
But that's not the point. The point is: "create a virus and then make users pay for the antivirus" business model always has worked on those who can't see any other option.
the problem is due to the dumbasses out there in the world who think that a million languages in one project is not a problem
i was happy with goland before, and it has a core feature that i use all the time - an actually working symbol hyperlinking database - and yes, it is brittle, i often need to force it to regenerate, but there is no other way for me to be able to quickly go from a usage to the definition than in intellij, nobody else has done the work to make it as reliable, vscode is a joke, and it does so many things in the background with zero notice, intellij only does a few odd things that it doesn't show me that it's working, and yes they are annoying as piss
and yes, not just open the source, but make the interface expose the workings to those who are interested... that's why i log religiously
My personal habit would be to protect my intellectual property until I'd established a market position.
Or to only publish the core bits, like we're doing with our SDK.
not going to work with bitcoin et al
instant distrust from everyone
personally i don't want any binary only stuff on my device if i can avoid it... and actually, i think the only such things i have are games, but at the same time many game companies have found it helps their sales by enabling devs to extend the game... look at the Source engine and all the things that have come out of that
a game that is noncompetitive is fine to be closed source because it is of little consequence
really, competitive games need to be open source too or else you get the endless bleat of gamers saying that the system is cheating them
security by obscurity doesn't work, this has been proven over and over again, and almost always, bad things are hiding in closed source binary blobs, just like Luxferre says
This isn't "security by obscurity", it's "protecting trade secrets" as an alternative to using the court system to enforce patents and licenses. Lots of open-source libraries are protected by licenses, so you can't legally fork and build off of them for a paid product.
But we can study these libraries and decide whether or not to trust them.
Those "trade secrets" often contain algorithms taken from FOSS or ripped from other companies' software.
I guess this issue will only be over once IT businesses will be obliged (by regulations or by natural selection — time will tell) to sell real work, not thin air in the shape of binary copies and license keys.
But the sad truth is, more and more companies just use this "trade secrets" excuse to conceal their own (or govt-issued, who knows) malware in their products. Oftentimes, they don't even try to hide this in their EULAs, which basically say "once you install this on your computer, it's no longer yours but ours".
Many Faildows users still don't realize how large of a technogenic catastrophe this could cause if M$ decides to flip the switch.
not just microsoft but a whole heap of companies have embedded backdoors and kill switches in everything, they can easily fabricate a "cyber apocalypse" any time they want to
this is part of the reason why it's so important to understand that hiding source code is ALWAYS a red flag, no matter what, no matter what you think about market advantage, these dark places are almost always hiding something and if they aren't, someone will see the opportunity and plant something malicious in there
that's what the original easter egg was too... and the dude that did that did it in protest against the culture of the software company
maybe you don't have bad intentions but hiding your source also enables someone to piggyback on flaws you made in your code that determined hackers can exploit
so, yeah, nah... FOSS for anything that has value, or GTFO
