Great news! Given the Unity price changes that dropped[1] I hope we see Godot get more funding.
[1] https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updat...
[1] https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updat...
Did Unity pricing go up? I assume that's what you're saying?
[edit] Just apologizing for the "dumb" statement. I meant it associated to the word. I should have just left it with "confusing", which is how I meant it. Sorry parent if that sounded directed at you.
Yes, "dropped" is a highly overloaded word, but one definition is:
>set down or unload (a passenger or goods), especially on the way to somewhere else.
so it may be a stretch to call it slang. saying that news "drops" as it is unloaded onto the public makes sense.
My point was just that the grandparent poster was acknowledging money is critical to success, yet griping about paying money toward something they use.
I don't know anything about Unity's price increases (and I am not standing up for them), but I think it is important to keep separate the concepts of 'free of charge' and 'open source'. Just because I am letting you at the code doesn't mean I can't be paid as well.
retroactively changing the price of your product for no extra beneits has never been celebrated. Asking for donations can be positive or negative depending on the context.
>I think it is important to keep separate the concepts of 'free of charge' and 'open source'. Just because I am letting you at the code doesn't mean I can't be paid as well.
sure, unreal is "open source" but you need to sign into their developer network to even view the code, and have a strict license on what you can do and share outside said network. So not quite open source, just "readable source".
AFAIK, Godot is indeed free as in freedom, licensed under MIT. It's pretty much "open source" in the true spirit of the term.