[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: On2 vs libvp62

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2006/4/21, Balatoni Denes <dbalatoni at programozo.hu>:
> Hi!
>
> cs?t?rt?k 20 ?prilis 2006 05.22-kor Rich Felker ezeket a bolcs gondolatokat
> fogalmazta meg:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:36:39AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > bad it is.  The reason bad closed source is perhaps more wide-spread
> > > is that behind a bad commercial product there is usually a marketing
> > > department that may be able to spin something that makes the product
> > > sell despite its flaws.  An open source product is promoted by its
> > > quality alone, meaning that the bad ones won't be used by many people.
> >
> > No, unfortunately "open source" has marketing departments too. Just
> > look at Xiph.org! Or an even better example: Redhat and all their
> > horrible bugware/bloatware (GNOME, gcc, glibc, ...).
>
> What is your point? The projects you mentioned (you didn't mention vorbis, but
> mentioned xiph) have accomplishments, and have gained somewhat widespread
> acceptance. You probably don't have such accomplishments - definietly not as
> an "ffmpeg developer" - so why not just shut up ? (btw I don't have such
> accomplishments either, but at least I have contributed to ffmpeg more than
> 10 lines of trivial fixes - not much more, but still).

Microsoft also have quite big accomplishments and have gained
widespread acceptance.
This doesn't mean that their software is not horrible bugware and bloatware.