[FFmpeg-user] Yes or No? About the processing pipeline.

[Phil Rhodes]

 Everything Mark is saying in this email is true.
The desperate desire of free software people for wider acceptance is fairly obvious. It is not something that can possibly happen until the world of free software figures out that the purpose of software is to do work for humans. This is currently very poorly understood.
Lots of talented work is being done and yet is effectively unavailable to a huge number of people because of this problem. Ffmpeg is the best example of this of which I am aware and it has been like this for decades.
This is a difficult problem to solve in the context of desktop Linux because desktop Linux is not sufficiently consistent that its usability can ever be much better than it is now, which is to say, extremely poor. Fixing that inconsistency will require people to make decisions about how things work, and impose those decisions on people. Since they will not do this, the problem cannot be solved.
All of this has been blindingly obvious for a very long time.
I'm not angry, I'm disappointed.
- Phil
    On Thursday 19 June 2025 at 13:03:49 BST, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:  
 
 

Am 19.06.25 um 13:59 schrieb Mark Filipak:
> My file manager and my text editor are both commercial programs. They 
> work superbly and are well documented in English, not programmers' 
> pigeon English. 

then use your file manager and text editor
oh - both can't do complex things

> Codesmiths should not manage projects and they should 
> not write user documentation. That's simply because they're not 
> qualified for those jobs.

you are not qualified

> FOSS is a failure and it's killed the market for well run projects and 
> for well-written applications precisely because everyone needs to make a 
> living and you can't make a living writing FOSS. That's a widely held 
> opinion, especially among professionals.
proven as nonsense
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