How about respect other people instead of rushing to condescending judgement? the stakes are incredibly low here, I asked ChatGPT for fun, like tens of millions of others are doing every day.
For some reason you announced that you were subjecting us to a low quality information retrieval method, and after 6 months of this, people are irritable. The social norms is to do that sort of thing in private, doing it in public and seemingly proudly came across as coarse and impolite
It didn't help any that it was clear from the initial post you were questioning someone with domain knowledge, which was later gently indicated to you
It's not asking ChatGPT that is anti social but posting it, diluting the entropy of the conversation. Thousands of brains read every posted word before they can discard redundant information. Together we can keep a high quality shared medium, which benefits everyone!
China is hardly alone in patent-trolling and government subsidized predatory pricing. The boogyman narrative is a bit of a red herring. Our patent system is broken. Our copyright system is broken. IP laws stifle innovation and are abused by public and private entities. China is just currently abusing fundamentally flawed systems better than everyone else.
If they took money for "ecosystem services" and the main Godot forum operator has been paying out of pocket without recompense after the raise, they have reason to be angry.
If, after money being raised like this, no one gives them money to pay for the forum (including all previous expenses) which they have been running out of pocket and provides a core service to the community, they should shut down the forum and delete the posts.
Agreed. The foundation should absolutely be paying those costs, and take that off the shoulders of this long suffering and burned out individual contributor.
It was made clear on the W4 page that:
"Additionally, W4 Games pledges to support Godot financially with no-strings-attached donations to the project."
If W4 Games has received 8 million dollars in funding but hasn't contributed any of it back to the Godot project as stated in their pledge, then there would be an inconsistency between their promise and their actions.
The text on the W4 page explicitly mentions their commitment to donating improvements made to Godot back to the community AND supporting the project financially. If they have not fulfilled these promises despite having significant funding, it would raise concerns about their integrity and whether they are truly dedicated to their stated mission.
Let's see the transparency of donations to the Godot foundation?
W4 got funding from venture capitalists. I'm certain that nobody who invested thought they were making a charitable donation to fund Godot development. It's not like the $8 million are just badly funds from donations.
And I'm sure those investors would be very, very angry at W4 if W4 just ran away with the money which was invested to fund development of products and services to give W4 a revenue stream, donated it to the Godot Foundation instead. In fact, I'm betting that would be quite illegal (and if it's not, the investors would certainly fire the CEO if that happened!).
It wasn't fair to claim that some of the $8 million should go to Godot. What I should have said was don't make claims on your site and to people supporting and using Godot
or any other open source community that aren't true.
This person just wants some compensation for covering the forums for Godot which sounds reasonable to me. The way it was worded wasn't clear but the underlying intention was clear.
I think it's completely reasonable for this person to not want to host the forums out of pocket for no compensation any more. If that was all this post was about, I don't think anyone would have any problems with it. It's all the stuff about Godot being a scam and complaints about how W4's seed funding from VCs isn't being donated to the Godot Foundation that's absolutely baffling.
