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Two that I have encountered: Aspera: a high-performance data transfer suit, used in genetics and the film industry. I wrote a blog post about it a year ago and still get near-daily emails asking me if there is an open source alternative yet. QUIC may provide a basis for a solution, but it needs to be explored. PDMS: software for planning, modeling and simulating oil and gas plants. Main two commercial suites are AVEV…
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> Git doesn't really have that concept Of locking files? Sure it does; if two people modify the same piece of code, then there will be a merge conflict, and whoever's doing the merge will have the opportunity to reconcile those two versions. It's like a lock, but you don't have to think about it / explicitly lock and unlock the object you're editing. Combine this with rebasing (git-speak for "switch to the branch int…
Merge conflicts are definitely not the same thing as file locking. At the point where you're getting a merge conflict, it's too late. How are you going to resolve conflicts in an audio file? File locking is a way to communicate in advance that nobody should attempt to make changes to a particular file until the lock is cleared. Merge conflicts are communication in arrears (so to speak) and at that point, effort has a…
By choosing one and discarding the other, or by creating a new audio file that incorporates both changes, just like one would do for any other file.
While I don't know if this exists, there's nothing theoretically preventing the creation of a diffing/patching tool for audio/video files, detecting insertions/deletions/replacements (perhaps by timestamp/frame rather than by line) the same way `diff` does for text.
> at that point, effort has already been wasted by at least one person.
A file lock doesn't prevent that time waste; there's nothing stopping someone from immediately overwriting it as soon as the first editor commits/releases the lock (in which case the first edit was a complete waste of time).
Video editing. There’s Kdenlive and OpenShot that are maybe the most well-established, but they we’re both very buggy the last time I dealt with them, and they’re nowhere near featureful as what’s available commercially. I think we could benefit from a well-know MovieMaker equivalent. Something that isn’t featureful, but is reliable (read: doesn’t crash) and intuitive.
* Mood tracking software (e.g. Daylio [1]). Put owners in charge of their data for easy export and sharing
* Paper craft unfolding (e.g. Pepakura). Allow for 'automagic' unfolding but also user selectable joining/splitting of triangular islands.
* Machine learning oriented games (e.g. GWAP [3] (now defunct)). Open source games that allow for open data collection that can then be fed back into the community for machine learning.
* I've heard architecture software is abysmal and has no open source alternatives
* In browser CAD (e.g. OnShape [4]). In browser lowers the bar to accessibility.
* Photogrammetry/3d Scanning. There might be some open source alternatives but nothing that is as easily accessible as the David Scanner [5].
* Projection mapping. Again, there might be some open source alternatives but nothing that I've seen where I can buy a 'kit' with intuitive software to get up and running quickly (though I haven't looked too much in depth).
* Ultrasound machine. There's echOpen [6] but I don't know the status of that project.
* DNA sequencer. There was the Polonator [7] but it never became 'open source' and eventually died.
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[2] https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation_game
[5] https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaign/3Dscanner/overview.html?j...
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This is my pet peeve. I'm already working in a relational language ( http://tablam.org ) to use as the core. My dream is to have not only an Access/Excel(in the role of pseudo-table programming) alternative, but one that could work great in a iPad/mobile device. Also, in this space, most "options" are fully on the cloud. Thats cool, but will never be a real challenger to Access or Excel if depend on cloud 100%. I nee…
Be very careful if you are going to invent your own programming language. The Eve creators had similar noble goals and ended up burning VC money and achieving nothing.
I wish to have some funding but my need are modest, so if i cover my own expenses so i can focus at least half time is good enough...
photoshop. Gimp has the functionalities, but its usability is poor.
OK, not open source! but single-purchase at a reasonable price. Which reduces motivation for an OS replacement.
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Sure, but my point stands - 35-40% is not enough to turn a profit for them.
That's because they're buying growth. Their last quarter revenue was almost $4 billion, you can definitely serve millions of daily rides for way less than that. My point is that you could have an open source version of these services that could be managed by local governments or not for profits.
That is the idea I guess.
> Their last quarter revenue was almost $4 billion, you can definitely serve millions of daily rides for way less than that.
How do you calculate this? Sure if you were just you with car, you could - but not sure this is exactly a workable business model without uber - if it was then people would presumably not use uber.
> My point is that you could have an open source version of these services that could be managed by local governments or not for profits.
You could have open source versions - but the source code is a small part of the operation - and I'm not sure why I would want to government to run it - or why people should not be allowed to profit from it. If the issue is that workers are being exploiter maybe a better option is to see if there is some reasonable regulation to be put in place or why there is such low demand relative to the supply of labour.
This article about how Microsoft Access won't die got me thinking about creating an open source alternative. I just retired and am looking for a project. I also have a history with msft that might be helpful. https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-d...