[MPlayer-dev-eng] 2006 OSDL desktop linux report

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:35:06PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:35:06PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > >> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > >>> Unfortunately there are many people who seem
> > >>> not to have a problem with critcizing binary driver vendors in one
> > >>> sentence and praising binary codec vendors in the next.
> > >> There are people arguing that binary codecs are necessary:
> > >> <http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html>
> > >> (in section "Facing the Music")
> > > 
> > > .. and of course they are blathering uninformed crap ..
> > > 
> > 
> > Blog about it, write an essay, make people aware! I'm not referring to
> > Diego but to everybody. If those journalist don't know about ffmpeg
> > (that obscure thing that doesn't even have a cool logo) I think we have
> > quite an image problem.
> 
> please read the chapter first before commenting too much, iam not saying i
> agree with it in any way but i wouldnt call it "blathering uninformed crap"
> or not knowin about ffmpeg, the text above 
> (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html)
> which is writen by Eric S. Raymond

Standard rhetoric coming from ESR. Have people still not given up on
this jerk? Maybe I should lookup the urls where he says ridiculous
racist things about blacks, or similarly *#&*($-up stuff...

Rich