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[–] [email protected] 167 points 5 days ago (16 children)

It's funny because apps like Blender and Krita are actually competitive to proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (9 children)

And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc...

Proprietary OS's like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

git was created because a proprietary VCS was being a dick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

There were many.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

There's perforce

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I was going to say git butler, which wraps git, but actually looks like that's gone open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

The ones I've seen in the wild are pvcs and ccc/harvest, but there are others. I think they usually try to brand it as part of a larger end-to-end SDLC tool or change management, or it's built to work with a specific proprietary system like Autodesk vault.

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