This is the story of how we built a music company. I discuss our ultimate goal to advance sheet music & notation technology, followed by how we built a creat...
  • Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      2 days ago

      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?

      • Big Baby Thor@sopuli.xyz
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        19 hours ago

        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.

        MOT 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”.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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          14 hours ago

          A lot of the nuance may be going over my head but I appreciate the insight into your view.