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

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Tue Jan 30 12:35:06 CET 2007


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.

lu

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Luca Barbato

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