Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community
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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.::Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

  • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    This has everything to do with FOSS.

    If a company can get away with pulling the rug on you, they will.

    Once you’ve heavily invested in using a a piece of software, the company behind it has leverage over you, but if you could pay for updates to that software from another company, the original company has no leverage over you.

    The only reason these companies refuse to release the source code is because they are planning on fucking you over in the future. As consumers we need to demand open source products to prevent this sort of abuse.