You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@lexfeathers Capitalism literally incompatible with software

[lexfeathers@tenforward.social]

@mcc Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 are pieces of software permanently burned into my psyche, this is so sad

[dmaonr@mastodon.online]

@LordCaramac
You might want to look into running the software on an old linux version in a VM.

Yes an old Linux is unsupported and probably full of security holes. Don't let the vm talk to the Internet and you should be fine.

[lancejz@mastodon.social]

@mcc Blender is better.

[eedly@mindly.social]

@mcc Hilarious to recount the history of Flash while not mentioning that one awful company, the one that also owned Director and FreeHand and DreamWeaver and, I dunno, Swivel 3D or something.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@eedly HECK! I'm kinda sick today and off my game. Also I thought Macromedia was good.

[feoh@oldbytes.space]

@mcc Sorry to hear, but IMO not surprising.

We're caught between the devil of late stage enshittification and the deep blue sea that is all the money FLYING out of the personal computer market.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@Lenni @RogerBW @mcc I haven't tried that on a recent Linux lately; the last time I tried it, eight years ago IIRC, it didn't work.

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@dmaonR I would need a Linux from ~2008 for that, I think.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@LordCaramac @Lenni @RogerBW hey just out of curiosity is this a GUI app or a command line app?

[lordcaramac@discordian.social]

@mcc @Lenni @RogerBW It's a command line app. It's an acoustic compiler that uses a text file with Sapphire code as input and creates .wav output.

[eedly@mindly.social]

@mcc I came from the Director side of things, and Macromedia's decision to have two flagship animation apps with UIs and workflows that looked very similar but were largely incompatible (I'm forgetting details here; it's been decades) was super frustrating.

The place I worked composited animations in Director and exported them using Lingo scripts and proprietary tools, and recreating that workflow from scratch for Flash was kind of a nonstarter.

[jason@logoff.website]

@mcc Margaret Thatcher’s “There Is No Alternative” but anticapitalist this time

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@jason We will have socialism or we will have barbarism. But like *no really*, we mean it this time!

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@mcc I take exception to the line: You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).

I have been using OSS since the 90's. Back then it might have been true, and there are still some holes in some categories of OSS software, but I wouldn't trade my OSS software for today's closed source software even if someone else was paying for it.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@Lenni @LordCaramac @RogerBW @mcc Tell us you are not a programmer without telling us you are not a programmer.

[attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com]

@mcc Add to that: If it's open source, even a single author project, if support stops, it is still usable.

The mail client I have been using for the last 28 years has not seen any updates for 4 years. The author disappeared without a trace (probably life happened). It still works. I can still compile it. I can still fix the small issues that are annoying. I know, one day I will have to find a replacement, but today is not the day.. probably not even the year.

[sykul@social.vivaldi.net]

@mcc I know you're being rhetorical but I actually do mostly use FOSS because it's better. It's usually a lot less bloated and just does the thing it's supposed to do. That to me is better.

[attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com]

@RogerBW @LordCaramac @mcc It doesn't take a group. All it takes someone who goes on a "I can get this working again" frenzy for a weekend. Once it compiles and works again, updating and extending it, is easy.

[drewnaylor@mastodon.online]

@mcc This is going to add at least 15 minutes to "Adobe Must Die".