[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Soft Works]

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> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> compn
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 5:13 PM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization
> 
> michael is not a supervillain. saying its "michael vs the
> community" ? please stop with these personal statements against
> any individual developers in the project on this mailing list.
> 
> if people are going to fork, then fork. ffmpeg has plenty of active
> and
> inactive forks. its not the end of the world. just a fork.
> 
> i hope a certain vocal subset of people will stop blackmailing this
> project with the "if we dont get our way, we'll quit/fork" stuff. its
> not a friendly nor professional ultimatum.

Eventually it's also not a thing as big as last time. There are many great developers out there, they've just been consequently fenced out and made to walk away before having even arrived. It would just take a while for the word to spread that developers are finally (and really) welcome.

sw