Apache OpenOffice??

Surely you meant LibreOffice. OpenOffice has basically been dead for years, with no significant work going on.

With enshitification nowadays, the fact that they're nonprofit is the reason why the software is good quality.

The Audacity!

Why on earth is OpenOffice here??

LibreOffice is the maintained fork.

It has been that way for 16 years now.

16 years.

There are people working full time jobs who were born the same year that LibreOffice started.

Stop promoting OpenOffice. People will have problems with it that have been long fixed in LibreOffice.

Edit: typo

Where is FreeCad in this one? I've started using it after buying a 3d printer, and it's awesome what that piece of software lets me create.

Heck, they won’t even let you into a difficult-to-cancel subscription! What are they thinking? Think of the revenue!

I'm not sure Firefox belongs on this list. Google finances Mozilla's operation to the tune of $420M a year. It's not for-profit, but it's also not the same as the others.

What people don't always remember about FOSS is they are just making it for themselves they are users as well as devs. The great thing about FOSS is if someone else happens to use it that's great and maybe they will contribute to something they use.

Openoffice -> LibreOffice

Seriously, don't use OpenOffice, it's abandoned for over 10 years.

So many people let perfect be the enemy of good. Firefox is great. It's the pillar of non-Chromium of browsers. Servo and Ladybird are not there yet and will take many years to surpass Firefox if ever. A Firefox fork has a better shot than those 2

GIMP is great software. Is it just Photoshop and Affinity better than it. Not seeing as much hate on Inkscape when it's just Adobe and Affinity as better.

OpenOffice is outdated but was good for like ~2010

A bunch of y'all would have been ragging on Blender 10 years ago. Ragging on Krita. In 2012 acting like gaming in Linux was doomed. In 2015 acting like Kdenlive would never reduce crashes and improve functionality. Acted like Darktable would never be competitive with Lightroom. Godot would be no good for anything more than 2d sidescrollers and never compete with Unity 5. A bunch of do nothing fence sitters. Firefox and GIMP developers contribute more to the good of humanity than anyone crying about them in this thread

So why is Mozilla shoving AI garbage nobody asked for into Firefox? I seriously doubt that their severely overpaid execs don't have some kind of profit incentive.

Audacity sold out and is now spyware; use Tenacity instead.

Ok, while most of these don’t have companies behind them with huge revenues, most work on these projects is done by paid developers, with money coming from sponsorships, grants, donations and support deals. (Or in the case of Linux - device drivers are a prerequisite for anyone buying your product).

Developers getting paid to work on open source is a good thing. These projects may have begun their life as small hobby projects - they aren’t anymore. (And that’s probably good)

shoutout to ffmpeg!

firefox? no profit incentive? we wish

The biggest selling point of capitalism is innovation.

That's why nothing was ever invented before capitalism.

Which makes some wonder how capitalism was invented.

But they are communists and should be shot for questioning the wisdom of the system.

Seriously though, thanks to all the FOSS developers out there. I try to donate $5 to $20 where I can, but I k ow that far from what they all deserve!

Boredom mostly, if their lazy bosses worked them more then they wouldn't have time to be productive at home.

/s

firefox is debataable

Firefox is not high quality. Every other browser is just worse.

Obligatory shoutout to curl.

🪟: absolutely atrocious. let's do for-profit low quality software instead 😡

I've been learning FreeCAD recently and it's pretty incredible too!

shoutout to MPV!

Blender is so incredibly good. Big fan here. I'm just a hobbyist tho

Reminds me a local youtuber saying something similar about non-profit companies.

They said it's human nature to be driven by profit, so non-profits are profiting in some other way. Hence he prefers to give business to for profit companies as you know their intentions.

I don't understand economics but why does there have to always be profit? If someone made devices that last 50 years they would go bankrupt? Make it make sense.

Blender is far better than anyone not-in-the-know would expect.

VLC does much more than just play videos, but the user interface inexplicably hides most of the functionality. Also, they've vehemently claimed for many years that it's impractical to provide backward frame-by-frame stepping, but Celluloid does it just fine.

GIMP and Inkscape keep improving, with GIMP being the better of the two. GIMP should just copy Photoshop's interface as closely as possible. There's no shame in that, and Photoshop does many things better. Most users coming to GIMP are coming from Photoshop. (Yes, I'm using PhotoGIMP, but that really doesn't do much to help.)