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

[Mark Filipak]

On 19/06/2025 08.47, Rob Hallam wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 at 13:09, Phil Rhodes via ffmpeg-user
> <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>   Everything Mark is saying in this email is true.
> 
> Everything? Even the trivially-disprovable-for-decades old saw about
> 'you can't make money writing FOSS software' ?
> 
> It's bizarre that FOSS is held up as an example of failure, never
> succeeding, much worse than commercial software etc given the internet
> is pretty near all hosted on Linux stacks, Android is Linux based.

Stacks? Do you mean on Linux servers? There's no user interface, just program interfaces and those 
are between cooperating programs. I don't use Android but I assume it's Linux-based because Linux is 
FOSS, so doesn't cost anything. But I guarantee you that Google enforces standards that make Android 
an operating system, not just a runtime executive.

Linux is FOSS. There are no interface standards in Linux because no one is paid to establish and 
enforce standards. The result is programs that don't interoperate -- Hell, Linux applications don't 
even have consistent font sizes.

> Remind me- how many billions were lost due to Crowdstrike? How many
> ads and tracking are inserted into the Windows OS?...

That's why my Windows is blocked from the Internet.

>... If you stop paying
> a subscription to Adobe, what happens to software like Adobe Photoshop
> / Illustrator- can you keep doing your graphic design job, or do they
> just stop working?

What happens if you stop putting gasoline in your car? Does it stop working?

> Asserting proprietary software has users' interests at heart and is
> magically run better than FOSS projects is make-believe.

Making a living from your work is not make-believe.

> Or as Reindl Harald more succinctly put it:
> 
>> On Thursday 19 June 2025 at 13:03:49 BST, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> 
>> proven as nonsense
> 
>> 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. (...)  Fixing that inconsistency will require people to make decisions about how things work, and impose those decisions on people.
> 
> Folks who work on Free software do so either at the behest of their
> employer...

Really? People are working writing free software at the behest of their employer? Or by "on Free 
software" do you mean _using_ free software?

>... or to do things that they want to do...

There you go, Rob. People work on FOSS because they want to. I've never figured out why they do it. 
Why would I?

>... If you want to convince
> them to change their approach,...

That will never happen until their living is affected by your arguments. And that will never happen 
until there are bosses and standards and money. You will never get volunteers to cooperate so long 
as volunteering is unpaid. Unfortunately, Socialism doesn't work but devolves into "the rule of the 
strong."