I would also imagine stuff like Blender and other open-source tools could use public backing. I think I mean to say if a state put it's full support of a open-source project (national politics aside) would be deeply beneficial to open-source software. In addition to regular contributors, a full-time contribution for a public university or state would be cool though I would imagine that it complicate the nature of open-source.
I wish i knew more about global history. I only recently learned about the actual dismantling (not fall, well I guess if it fell it was pushed) of the Soviet Union. I'm sure Open-source would prosper under a Soviet-Union technology/science initiative. Which would be dope.
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Didn't the soviet union hesitated too much on using more computers?
A legit shame. The USSR could have had the same sort of radicalizing influence on open source as they had on their geographic neighbors
seriously, there are so many open source options, and i know Godot continues to get better and better
Now's the time for it since Unity is going big into microtransactions and spyware.
Obv Russia isn't an ideal replacement (open source gang), but Unity is a lot more poisoned than average devs know and I hope more learn about it as alternatives are built
The first thing I though of was the jankness of the stalker franchise game engine. Honestly let's hope it brings better stuff to bear, even better since they could just make half the world use linux by creating games only in Linux then say windows is western spy wear (it is) :rat-salute:
This is precisely why China uses Linux. It would be cool if Russia funded open source projects to rival the corporate donors, but they’ll probably make some engine they can monetize themselves
Noooooooooo what will this do to Tarkov?
Edit: I have all the confidence in the world in Russian ingenuity but it'll suck if this winds up splitting gaming. We'll need to find black market Chinese hardware to run games from the Eurasian bloc, which will be the only ones without microtransactions
I imagine finding a RISC-V computer probably won't be that hard, given it was created at Berkeley to begin with.
