This kind of drama is why I am often happy to pay for my tools and services.
Unity had a bit of a mess too, but it's a different kind of mess for me. One that doesn't make me worry so much about the engine health or roadmap. That one was mostly just capitalists being capitalists. A devil you can quantify and put to rest in one afternoon.
0% of $0 is still $0. From a risk management perspective, I'd much rather experience some incremental margin impact than worry about a community black swan event that rips the engine dev team apart and leaves me with a pile of ash to play with.
Paying money doesn't buy you a magical get out of Black Swan event free card.
These exact same politics can happen inside a company or organization that you pay money to. Economic pressures just add on to it as well, and if they go belly up, you don't even have the source code for any potential fork to rise up from.
I often wonder how in the last 10 or so years software projects became too politicized.
What I mean is people viciously arguing on issues adjacent to the software project, rather than the project itself.
In the earlier days most arguments were about the direction of the software project itself, and the worst ones were resolved by forking the code.
I feel sad about this problem. But the best way forward is to ‘air the dirty laundry’ (it's a Spanish phrase).
I hope Godot's project does not die because of this problem.
This kind of drama is why I am often happy to pay for my tools and services.
Unity had a bit of a mess too, but it's a different kind of mess for me. One that doesn't make me worry so much about the engine health or roadmap. That one was mostly just capitalists being capitalists. A devil you can quantify and put to rest in one afternoon.
0% of $0 is still $0. From a risk management perspective, I'd much rather experience some incremental margin impact than worry about a community black swan event that rips the engine dev team apart and leaves me with a pile of ash to play with.
Paying money doesn't buy you a magical get out of Black Swan event free card.
These exact same politics can happen inside a company or organization that you pay money to. Economic pressures just add on to it as well, and if they go belly up, you don't even have the source code for any potential fork to rise up from.