Godot is inflecting fast as an alternative to Unity and has produced some hits on Steam such as Balatro and Cruelty Squad
Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
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Re: Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Linus was pretty steamed at the participants in that debacle (especially Tridge for some reason) The reason was that Tridge was trying to build an OSS alternative to BK.
Not that that made Tridge in any way deserving of Linus's ire ... but I guess Linus was upset to see his personal friend McVoy go off like this, and blamed who they saw as the instigator. Not the best reaction all told, but understandable human behavior regardless. Of course, the actually meaningful response was that he wrote Git, so it's all just ancient history now. I doubt there's any hard feelings left between an…
You'd like to think so, but I wonder what McVoy thinks about it all. After all, before that, he had Bitkeeper which was his business, which had the distinction and fame of being used for the Linux kernel project. Now, who even remembers BK?
Re: Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
#163Wait, has no one mentioned LibreOffice yet? 200 million active users (!) seems like it's successful enough. Admittedly, it hasn't really challenged Microsoft Office yet, but it's growing, and also it's hard to look at something with 200 million active users and say 'that's a failure'. Definitely an alternative though. There's also uBlock Origin, but I don't know if it's the largest adblocker yet. It should be, though…
For people who need to use Office seriously, unfortunately LibreOffice is not an option. But should be good for light usage.