I’m not able to understand why Vulkan was removed from the Hyperbola project? What is not open source about this project?

  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Their justification is batshit for the seven dropped packages I read. I haven’t seen all of those various talking points together in a single place before. It’s a “who’s who” of every crank idea from the last couple of decades. I’m genuinely surprised they don’t drop support for themselves given their social bloat.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      Some of this reads like pure satire:

      • scummvm is not compatible because it "implements engines just as interpreter instead of a full possible reimplementation“

      I’m especially loving the on hold section:

      • Inkscape is out because it started offering an option to choose a preset resolutions for a new image including resolutions for non-free sites like facebook. They claim that a patch wouldn’t somehow fix this issue.
      • They go to the trouble of patching the logos for github and oculus out of neverball (oh no, non-free logos), which makes their argument about inkscape even funnier, as I can’t imagine resolution presets to be deeply embedded in the codebase.

      That said, they lay their logic out pretty nicely. It seems meant to be super opinionated, with extremely rigid rules they stick to in as binary of a fashion as possible to keep things managable for the small group maintaining the OS project.

      It’s their small project, they’re allowed to be opinionated. At least they’re open and straightforward.

      “Hyperbola is not opposing a diverse and colorful software-landscape! […] It sounds harsh when we need to mark a package being set on hold […] This has nothing to with any kind more fanatic perspective as it is just following a simple and also direct logic.”


      We’re still free to laugh at the unadulterated idealogical purity shit they’ve built as their logic though. Deus Freedom Vult