Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It's an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you're really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don't care.
and with enough money I don't care.
Most people are like you.
Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth's natural history.
I've come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.
Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.
If most humans were like Kempf (we're not), we'd actually have a chance.
I don't think this hypothetical is about winning so much as never having to worry about your needs being met again. The calculus changes completely for a lot of people (not optimistic enough to say most) if that's not part of the equation.
Which is exactly why Capitalism keeps us barely holding on, by design.
Right, but at cost to others, and attempting to minimize the cost to others trying to rationalize it. That's the point. Call it winning, call it succeeding, call it whatever you like, its me over us. The idea of accepting your benefit at the loss of numerous others tears people en masse down. Maybe another branch would become as popular, maybe not, but such choices are presented frequently in our civilization, and the choice is usually to take the win at other's expense.
Regardless, we are what we are and on a long enough time scale what we are will destroy us. That's not as sad to me as all the other creatures we'll take with us, but even we won't be able to sterilize all terran life, so the Earth will recover from us. Life will go on after we successfully fuck ourselves trying to fuck one another. I find solace in that.
That is a very western, independent cultural paradigm you have there. Western culture and values are not shared by everyone in the west let alone all humanity.
Only a few of us have strong narcissistic and anti-social personality traits, but they are vocal and usually end up in positions of power.
I would argue the vast majority of humanity throughout history is more selfless and willing to sacrifice and work towards a goal than you give us credit for. Look at the big picture and think about how much innovation has come from a place not driven by profit potential but for THE potential to go further.
When I look at the world and to the East, I see just as many people in suits lording over people slaving for very little. I see Asian factory owners and managers getting bonuses for inflicting draconian conditions on their factory workers to the point of suicides. I see eastern governments sending their citizens to brainwashing camps to make governing them a little easier. I see the rare society that does find homeostasis with its environment being decimated by societies of people with a selfish interest in the land they sit on time and time again. Taiwan isn't at war with anyone, but China wants their shit because they want their shit. No cowboys or rugged individuals required.
And that's why your picture isn't on the front page of Lemmy 2day!
I think I would manage.
Almost the best of both worlds right?
Creator gets a huge payout, well deserved. Users install VLC, see ads, exit, search web for “VLC ads”, see the fork, re-install having wasted 2-3 minutes total. Eventually “VLC Origin” is the only one anybody talks about.
Those who can stomach ads don’t bother finding the ad-free version, and still use great software. Even the advertisers win.
(This assumes no abusive telemetry / spyware.)
I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it's so performant you can easily customize it.
But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.
If I try to play 3 random videos in VLC, they all three will play perfectly. If I try those same three on anything else, at least one of them will be buggy in some way.
Yes you can argue there could be encoding problems in the video file of that buggy one, but somehow VLC just always works. Shit's unbelievably good, so I won't be switching.
I remember the first time I encountered the Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) media type which ultimately lead me to downloading VLC as it was the only player that could handle it at the time
MPC-HC and MPV both rock, but VLC will always stay on all my machines because any time I have a problem with a video file, VLC opens that shit no issue.
As of right now VLC also doesn't properly support Wayland, but MPV does. It's a great piece of software!
Agree on the sentiment about VLC though, having an open source project demonstrate what is possible and stand the test of time definitely paves the way for future work and improvements.
I paid $ as a donation for VLC. For the decades of use I’ve gotten out of it I felt I had to. Same for a couple other useful apps that have been free for a long time or very useful. I wasn’t able to afford much in years past, but now I can chip in. Hope this helps these devs keep the stuff free, nothing much worse than seeing a beloved FOSS close doors on users and demand fees.
I can't afford health care but I appreciate VLC and people who support it. All I can give is a God bless and thank you!
Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.
I've even seen it on roads. Love that the DOT supports free software.
lol and people think Andrew "no chin" Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)
Seriously the best player. I've installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.
I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.
WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!
Remember to donate to open-source projects!
😇 He's the opposite of Spez! 😈
VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.
Protect this Man at any cost.
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
Its GPL anyways. If he ever does accept, it would be sad but not a catastrophe.
Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.
it's been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.
I imagine he always wears this hat in public.
Thats not a hat thats just how his head is
Thanks Jean-Baptiste!! You and VLC are Awesome!!
And a converting tool to boot
I don't understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Thanks Jean!
Where does this traffic cone come from? And where do I get that hat??
Side of the highway. Just grab one from a road construction site. They're free!
This is more of a correct answer than you'd think.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220331124436/http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
I like his hat
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