[MPlayer-users] MPlayer mentioned in linuxworld's Linux Predictions for 2002

[Robert Munro]

He's interesting, but not good at avoiding,
um... controversy.  Joe Barr used to be one
of the regulars on Will Zachmann's Canopus
forum on Compuserve, years ago.  He was an
OS/2 advocate then (I was an OS/2 fan too).

He used to go over-the-top, flaming people,
and I suspect he had some hard times, then.
He's mellowed some, judging by his columns
recently.  Moderately subtle humor was not
his mode in those earlier days, not at all.

MPlayer is great software.  The developers
are highly competent, gifted people.  More
discussion might be helpful, about support
for the growing user base of nondevelopers.

Regards, and happy New Year wishes to all,
Robert Munro

Gabucino wrote:
> 
> BTW : about Joe Barr, just use Google :)
> 
>      At least Evan doesn't create fake
>      quotes and publish them like Joe
>      Barr does. You may all remember
>      the LinuxWorld 2000, when he
>      claimed that Linus T said that
>      'FreeBSD is just a handful of
>      programmers'. Linus said NOTHING
>      of the sort. When Joe was called
>      on this, his reaction was to call
>      BSD supporters assholes and jerks.
> 
> --
> Gabucino
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