[FFmpeg-devel] Project orientation

[Nicolas George]

Manolis Stamatogiannakis (12020-07-07):
> I believe I have adequately explained that "less secure" needs to be
> enabled, not to make your Google account more secure, but to contain
> the damage from a potential compromise.
> 
> Yes, "less secure" sounds a lot like marketing slang. But Gmail is not used
> exclusively by CompSci majors :)

I will state it another way.

Anybody should be able to use the software of their choice to read their
e-mail.

If a compromise around these software have a consequence beyond mail and
what is directly related to mail, then the fault is not the software's,
the fault is to whoever tied mail and other things together.

Google has a totalitarian policy, as in they want to totally control
your web experience (the fact that the same word is used to qualify
dictatorships is not a coincidence): they make every effort so that if
you dip a toe in them, you find yourself submerged before you know it.

It is Google's choice, and Google's responsibility, and your choice and
your responsibility if you decide to use Google totally.

This choice should not direct the workings of a Libre Software projects
that is not under the control of Google. The choice should even less
direct the choices of other people working on the project.

As was pointed out earlier, there are solutions. Even if Google hides
it, there are ways of accessing their walled gardens with other
applications. Even if there are not, you can decide to isolate your
accounts. (If would probably be a good idea irregardless of FFmpeg,
anyway.)

So learn to use them, and do not demand other people to change their
(good) habits so that you can keep your (bad) habits.

I would offer my help in doing so, but as I explained, I do not use
Google, and therefore have no help to offer to better use it. But if you
want my help in learning powerful command-line tools, you can have it.
(And it would probably be a good investment of your time.)

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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