[HN Gopher] OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
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OBS and Streamlabs Commit to Long-Term Collaboration
Author : haunter
Score : 235 points
Date : 2021-12-25 08:20 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| dry_soup wrote:
| Nice that this issue, which started as a naming dispute IIRC, has
| been resolved amicably.
| Hamuko wrote:
| Next stop: TikTok?
| brw wrote:
| Context for those out of the loop:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103
|
| Although Streamlabs violated the trademark instead of the GPL,
| so somewhat different issues.
| lnyan wrote:
| Previous post:
|
| The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and
| trademark https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249766
| andrewflnr wrote:
| Oof. It's good that they've changed their tune for now, but I
| wouldn't trust that company as far as I could throw it to not
| get up to more shenanigans in the future.
| noobermin wrote:
| Somewhat tangential to this post but I'm happy that OBS is open
| source and it's established. It's up there with blender as
| quality open source tools that are rapidly reaching mainstream
| acceptance.
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| As the project lead for another "significant" open source media
| app, Ardour, I want to note how incredibly impressed I am by
| OBS. The program itself and the extent of it being "the
| standard" for what it does are unmatched, even by Blender.
| Every time I use it (not daily but weekly-ish) it reminds me
| how impressive it really is. I'm not deep into the OBS
| community, but from the outside, it's also impressive how the
| application is not obviously surrounded by endless wasted rants
| about its appearance, which is very out of step with
| contemporary GUI design, yet remains highly functional.
| Stevvo wrote:
| OBS isn't "rapidly reaching mainstream acceptance" like Blender
| is. It has been the industry standard for 10 years already.
| majou wrote:
| It's even used in TikTok's streaming software, which is the
| highest usage platform on the internet.
|
| Unfortunately it's been used against GPL.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103
| geerlingguy wrote:
| Agreed. In terms of streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or
| elsewhere, and even for things like budget live production
| and screen recording, it has become more or less the standard
| by which other tools are measured.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| What does YouTube use for their go live feature from the
| browser?
| ljm wrote:
| OBS, Blender, Krita and Godot make for quite a powerhouse of a
| creative suite.
| prirai wrote:
| Inkscape.
| fartcannon wrote:
| Linux, too!
| Shared404 wrote:
| Also Ardour and LMMS for audio!
| vorpalhex wrote:
| Now if only we could get a solid photo editor. The Glimpse
| team is trying but they got a ways to go.
| iou wrote:
| I didn't know GIMP had been renamed till now, the repo is
| archived though, is that just because it's a mirror of some
| email-based-git approach?
|
| https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
| ljm wrote:
| It hasn't been renamed, looks like Glimpse was a fork
| that's no longer maintained (while GIMP goes on).
| haunter wrote:
| - Photopea
|
| - Photoshop CS2 is abandonware, can't activate it anymore,
| Adobe doesn't care and runs perfectly with Wine. Heck I
| tried it with Bottles [0] and it's so simple. And much
| better than GIMP/Glimpse
|
| 0, https://usebottles.com/
| i67vw3 wrote:
| "Collaboration" might be from tech side as I do not see any
| financial "collaboration" https://opencollective.com/obsproject
| jarrell_mark wrote:
| Streamlab's parent company Logitech is OBS's largest
| Organization donor and has been donating since May 2019
| i67vw3 wrote:
| Did not know that Logitech bought Streamlabs. My comment
| therefore invalidates.
| bluskiesnclover wrote:
| Source?
| msk-lywenn wrote:
| That very page in the parent post. 50000$ from Logitech. I
| would have expected more.
| ckdarby wrote:
| Plus the development time they give internally to the
| open source project.
| Xylakant wrote:
| Straight on the list of top contributors on the open
| collective page the GP linked. The source is in the post
| claiming that there's no contribution.
| chmod775 wrote:
| > since May 2019
|
| Well. Kinda. They gave a "yearly" contribution of $50,000
| once in 2019, then never again. Also that was before Logitech
| bought Streamlabs.
| Kudos wrote:
| Seems like they were hedging their bets pre-acquisition of
| Streamlabs to me.
| tw04 wrote:
| They're a "premier sponsor" on the front page of OBS along
| with Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube. They're giving far more
| than $50k/year to earn that spot. The one-time donation in
| 2019 was likely their smallest.
| geofft wrote:
| Genuine question - is OBS set up so that all contributions show
| up there? Or is this the equivalent of a Patreon or something,
| where a large corporation doing large corporate things would
| instead write a check (or do a wire transfer) completely
| unrelated to this website?
| r1ch wrote:
| Not all financial contributions are shown there. There's a
| Patreon and also private contributions that exceed the Open
| Collective tiers, they appear in the Premier section on the
| OBS homepage.
| JohnHaugeland wrote:
| Nah, Streamlabs is stealing from other people too
|
| They're villains
| AustinDev wrote:
| They've copied source code from other small indie alert
| developers I know a guy who showed me proof they copied their
| code line from line pre-acquisition, bugs included...
| keyle wrote:
| I used both in the past. I wonder if anyone has a TL;DR of the
| story behind this, because I had never heard of any feud?
| poopsmithe wrote:
| Streamlabs was using the name, "OBS" (Streamlabs OBS aka SLOBS)
| in their fork of OBS and it led a bunch of people to believe
| that Streamlabs == OBS.
|
| On OBS github, contributors asked SLOBS to stop doing that, and
| Streamlabs declined.
|
| Streamer community outrage ensued via Twitter. Large exodus of
| SLOBS users to OBS. Streamlabs publicly apologized a few days
| later, and renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio.
| uyt wrote:
| >renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio
|
| Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this
| post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by
| relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name.
| Which would've been a huge shame to open source software.
| Glad stuff worked out.
| saynay wrote:
| There was a few other things that tied in to the anger. It
| turned out Streamlabs had released a series of products that
| each exactly mirrored the functionality of other popular
| projects, including in one case stealing the entire product
| page (including user reviews) and replacing the product name
| with the Streamlabs version. Just a long series of
| exceedingly blatant copying and theft.
| leovander wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249766
| iou wrote:
| I only used OBS for the first time recently and was blown away by
| how stable and feature-rich I was. Truly a great OSS project.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| Great news. Post is a bit light on details though. Anyone know
| what this might mean in practice?
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