https://www.tivi.fi/uutiset/tv/5f636691-6ea0-4209-a0d7-a19480cc2f79
Micrsoft forbids selling of opensource software on Microsoft store. Also monetary help for open source is forbidden. The solution to this? Dont keep your software in Microsoft Store. But then maybe it wont get the publicity you would have liked when people cant find the software because they dont know where to look.
Painter software Krita is one of those under attack. It cannot be sold through Microsoft Store according to Microsoft. InkScape on the other hand cannot ask for donations.
This is against "the American way".
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Impossible, I already am the first autistic monkey.
>morons want to get into moron store
not my problem
> creating autistic monkeys
Anything to get Twitter's daily active user count going up, huh?
Krita is still there.
This is just a policy to stop chinese from taking an existing open source project and putting it on the store and charging money for it while giving the developers nothing.
implying windows users would ever use GIMP for anything lol
if they were, odds are they're at least intelligent enough to use chocolatey package manager
I don't think GIMP is asking any money at all so it can stay on MS store
there was a "PRO" version for like $5 before
Nonissue
https://twitter.com/gisardo/status/1545473811226705922
>extremely vague interpretation of events
>we might or might not frick you over after all
Can't say if it's a nonissue or if it's not not not a nonissue
>designed to prevent being misled
>people were confused about its intent
is his irony?
>Microsoft store
I have only ever used that for downloading the codec packs
you can get the hevc one for free if you're not a moron
>you can get the hevc one for free if you're not a moron
yea, by installing mpv
>implying I use it for watching videos
I use mpv, but having the codecs installed gives you thumbnails in explorer
oh, can't you use ffdshow or something for that?
ffdshow doesn't support hevc or MPEG2 which is the two things I wanted to have thumbnails. does anyone still maintain any codec packs? would be cool if ffmpeg added support for something like that.
don't understand why microshit doesn't just have inbuilt codec support for MPEG2 or the other free codecs provided by them on the ms store, it's stupid like having to install power toys for SVG thumbnail support too.
mpeg2 isn't a free codec, that's the problem, mpeg codecs require royalties when used for commercial things like being part of a paid proprietary operating system
idk what the current go-to is for this on windows, i moved to linux ages ago
the MPEG-2 patent expired years ago and is completely free on the ms store, older versions of windows had support built in but from 10 onwards you need to install the codec for some reason.
>the MPEG-2 patent expired years ago
oh my mistake then
I don't use the Microsoft store, most people probably don't either but MS is coming up with more bullshit ways to make you use it-some hardware drivers can only be installed/updated by using the store.
>Microsoft forbids the selling of open source software
Not a problem for FOSS bc we aren't trying to sell it
Microsoft Store has ethical flaws itself
It’s a nonfree program and it distributes nonfree software, while simultaneously requiring a nonfree operating system to run
Pushing the idea that you cannot sell free software is anticompetitive and unjust
how can you sell something that's open source? cant any user just compile it themselves for free?
most users won't compile software, so you could be open source and sell the installers
Also i dislike the Commons Clause
Please ask projects like bitburner to stop using it
Nobody uses the Microsoft Store. You'll be alright.
Apple charges $100 a year to every app developer
>This is against "the American way".
No, greedy corporations fricking over communities is completely in line with "the American way".
does anyone actually even use the windows store?
>Scientists create the first ever autistic monkeys
Fake, moot did it first with IQfy