Open Source Revolution

The open-source tools and movements replacing corporate-controlled software.

Corsair Software: Hardware Gold, Software Nightmare
dev tools

Corsair Software: Hardware Gold, Software Nightmare

Corsair iCUE uses 400MB of RAM to control LED colors, crashes during firmware updates, and loses your profiles. Great hardware deserves better software.

7 min readRNT Editorial
Eclipse IDE: Software Built by Engineers Who Hate Other Engineers
dev tools

Eclipse IDE: Software Built by Engineers Who Hate Other Engineers

Eclipse consumes 2-4GB RAM, freezes during typing, and requires ritual Clean-and-Rebuild cycles. IntelliJ and VS Code have surpassed it in every measurable dimension.

7 min readRNT Editorial