[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ipfsgateway: Remove default gateway

[Tomas Härdin]

ons 2022-08-24 klockan 22:54 +0200 skrev Michael Niedermayer:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 06:35:04PM +0200, Tomas Härdin wrote:
> > But for some reason the notion
> > that the same applies to *all* parsers, including decoders and
> > demuxers, this notion is hard to swallow. And similarly for
> > encoders
> > and muxers. I have yet to see a justification that is anything but
> > cargo culting.
> 
> Its not hard to swallow, it simply is wrong.
> Why is there Tesla ?
> to build cars ?
> no
> "Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to
> sustainable energy."

Tesla's mission is to generate profit, nothing else.

> they could outsource everything, from chip design to batteries to
> software to
> the car seats and so on but they dont because its better to reach
> their goal
> to do them internally

This has everything to do with economics of scale and ultimately
economizing on labour, thus lowering the value of Tesla's lithium-ion
cells and increasing profit.

For software the situation is very different, because the cost of
reproducing a program is effectively zero. All labour goes into
development. The goal of FFmpeg like every free software project is to
create use-values. Any labour spent in excess of what is necessary to
say be able to play MXF files is simply make-work.

I'm not sure what the bit about censorship has to do with my point.

/Tomas