[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Marth64 (12025-01-29):
> > Help me understand your version so we can make a table to contrast?
>
> Once again: learn from history.
>
> What we are seeing here is a small group of people with some skills in
> social engineering bullying Michael and manipulating occasional
> contributors in order to take control of the project. Just like we saw
> in the months leading to the attempted hostile takeover.
>

No, what we're seeing is a few representatives of the community speak up
because they are tired of your and Micheal's BS.
You are welcome to come to Fosdem and see for yourself.

What I cannot say is whether the purpose is only a matter of
> self-interest, steering the gratis work of Michael and other brilliant
> contributors towards applications that are profitable for companies, or
> whether some of them have more nefarious purposes, like some kind of
> supply-chain attack.
>

again with the conspiracy theories, stop, it's becoming a meme

I personally do not want to be in a project where the longest email wins,
where people can just use the name and represent ffmpeg at trade shows
without proper authorization, where people can be removed at will, where a
random mailing list admin can silence a thread.

You might be shielded because you're an official friend of Micheal, but
others might not be so lucky, and would prefer a proper process.
-- 
Vittorio