Some further thoughts and a more positive spin based on watching the (breathtakingly fast) what's new video...
Several of the features regarding merging, synchronisation, metadata handling are available now (not in the 'DOpus 12 light' release from 2017 I was using).
I will gladly pay my money for the pro version and look forward to using the latest version with my own cat videos.
(Still consider the features as too configurable and not easily 'discoverable' particularly for 'normal' rather than 'tech' users)
I also recognise how amazingly talented the small DOpus12 team are. They've implemented something that Microsoft should have done....
e.g. those of attribute changer https://www.petges.lu/ modifies metadata between source and destination without changing the underlying identical files.
e.g. personally find winmerge and winscp a simpler solution to some aspects of comparison and synchronisation (but need setup)
Overall I do use Opus regularly but largely to just get a count of the contents of a directory (avoiding a manual file propperties right click on the folder.)
I appreciate the software development costs, but £25 for a single node locked license is steep. I'd like to see that extended to at least a couple of PCs + a laptop as many advanced users (who can regex :) ) are likely to have at least a couple of PCs round the house in these work from home days.
Overall 3.5 out of five - undeniably powerful but interface is too fussy
An extension of the zig ideas is making self contained portable and very small binaries that run everywhere from bare metal to any OS using a cross platform libc and configuring GCC or clang appropriately.
As noted below, my initial wording was unhelpful and misplaced.
The infrastructure costs are covered by sponsors. The 'They should monetise' was a 'they' that I now understand are external organisations rather than nixos themselves.
I'm really impressed with it and am ONLY seeking clarity. I'll be extremely happy if I can use it standalone.
Copyright, licensing are all I'm looking at.
e.g. Something like AGPL is considered copyleft and not compatible with 'open source' ethos. Still 'free' but the additional non-compete cloud service clause is both a sensible move, but something I'd just like to understand.
Your statement of 'what's wrong with people' is what is getting me. Borderline defensive. I'm definitely not knocking the product, quite the reverse. Its so good I want to embrace it wholeheartedly.
I have no problem paying for things, contributing voluntarily to a great product.
Its good to see that various organisations are committed to funding the infrastructure costs etc. (which negates my comment about storage servers).
It looks impressive but it isn't clear how much you have to pay for services from them. It isn't free and you aren't in control. Your snapshots and abilities to rollback etc are likely to be dependent on their storage servers.
They certainly should monetise, but not making it clear is what I object to. I've raised as an issue for clarification in their community wiki.
Ashley Broadley's github page at https://github.com/ls12styler sadly doesn't contain a repo with his rust dev work to date (I will ask him as it has some really good stuff in the article.)
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Very nice. I'm doing similar at the moment. Maybe take a look at
Several of the features regarding merging, synchronisation, metadata handling are available now (not in the 'DOpus 12 light' release from 2017 I was using).
I will gladly pay my money for the pro version and look forward to using the latest version with my own cat videos.
(Still consider the features as too configurable and not easily 'discoverable' particularly for 'normal' rather than 'tech' users)
I also recognise how amazingly talented the small DOpus12 team are. They've implemented something that Microsoft should have done....