[MPlayer-users] Re: Encoding quality advices

[Yourself]

Quoting Thilo Schulz (arny at ats.s.bawue.de) as `TS'
Message date: 01 Dec 2002 at 17:38

TS> [snip]. But what the open source community is 
TS> about, giving everybody a nice usable system that they do not need to learn 
TS> for hours how it works before they can use it, where is this ideal?

Huge mistake... Open source is about source code available to everyone.
Nothing more, nothing less.

It has nothing to do with ease of use. Some of the best open source software out
there are, in fact, not easy to use (but extremely efficient, after you
know them):

-> vi
-> emacs
-> gdb
-> gawk
-> sed
-> grep
...

i'm sure we can enlarge the list as much as we like, but the thing is
that to my experience, open source is about quality, efficiency, and of
course availability to everyone. 

I agree that mencoder is "difficult", but it is its power and
flexibility that introduces this. and I prefer difficult and flexible to
easy and simplistic.

ease of use is the bet of closed source. And what a bet! They gain
millions of $$ every day!

-- 
yourself