Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust

Interview: "It was not our intent to nickel-and-dime it, but it came across that way."

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As per the article they will work to reinstate that.

... and as per their previous behavior, they lie.

 

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I’m been banned before saying this, journalists who wrote this trash should be ashamed of themselves. This is like getting the tobacco execs side of the argument.

1. Gonna need some proof of that one. Are you SURE you didn't do just a little more than insult the author?

2. If we didn't hear the other side's arguments we wouldn't know who we're dealing with, now would we?

IMO, the biggest failure on the authors' part was not pushing back against the obvious lies. If this is more of a "request for comment / response" type of statement from Unity, then I can understand it.

 

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That wasn't the point I was trying to make.

What I meant was that I am downvoted to hell and accused of being a gaslighting corporate shill, merely for offering a different point of view - which isn't even a heavy defence of Unity, but merely a call for balance and restraint.
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You are defending behavior we haven't witnessed, they have done nothing outside of making a statement at this time.

You also chose to ignore every single one of us that pointed out THEY'VE DONE THIS SHIT BEFORE. They were already on their "second chance" and you want to applaud them for "recognizing" they fucked up?

You make 0 sense.

 

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I thought they already made the final Mission Impossible film.

Can't count out Asylum Films following suit with an Impossible Mission series at some point.

 

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This argument is so tired. FOSS is all around us, and getting stronger while commercial software (like Unity) gets crappier (in one way or another).

True, Linux hasn't made much dent in the desktop market. And yet, my household currently has 2 Windows PCs, 1 Linux PC... and at least 10 Linux-based smart devices. Linux is creeping in everywhere, because its openness makes it fundamentally better to work with than commercial platforms.

Many other FOSS products already hold at least enough market share to put pressure on their commercial equivalents to be less evil. I rely on Inkscape where I once used CorelDraw and Illustrator. And I use GIMP extensively as well. It's already ahead of Photoshop in some ways (apart from price) and evolving steadily. Soon it will leave Photoshop behind in the dust - and/or force Adobe to give graphics professionals a better deal.

I also use endless FOSS utilities for digital 'odd jobs' - KeePass is a good example. I use these products not (primarily) because of my belief in the principles of FOSS, but because open standards are practically the only worthwhile guarantee that a product won't abruptly turn against me - as Creative Suite Cloud has done, and as Unity is currently trying to do (to developers).

Never had a project collapse or go closed source on ya, eh?

In my experience:
Open source formats?
Yes, please and thank you.

Open source tools and utilities?
They've been reliably unreliable. I'll roll it myself or go with something guaranteed for x number of years, thus Unity being excluded from our toolchain.