That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.
Like Davinci? Wonderful piece of software without a doubt but OMG is it hard to pickup for someone that doesn’t want to become full time video editor…
I use shortcut, can do a lot of cool things and it’s not overwhelmingly difficult. A few simple guides and you’re up and running.
That’s only free as in beer not free as in freedom. Depending on their license they could stop giving out free updates or just stop developing it and nobody would be able to continue developing it
With free open source software (often shortened to FOSS) the source code is available which is required for expanding upon the software and most importantly the license allows for it shared and modified.
From the standpoint who doesn’t do much coding it’s probably not as useful at first glance but please remember FOSS when you can’t use one of your favourite programs anymore.