Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 21, 2011 12:02 UTC (Fri) by Velmont (guest, #46433)
In reply to: Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse? by przemoc
Parent article: FFmpeg turmoil

Thank you for this great comment. It made me understand a bit more.

This just looks awfully sad. :-(

There's also a blog post about it here, from an insulted ffmpeg developer http://gabucino.be/files/ffmpeg-coup.html

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 21, 2011 13:49 UTC (Fri) by DonDiego (guest, #24141) [Link] (6 responses)

Gabucino is a masterful troll and flamer, but he never was an FFmpeg developer.

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 21, 2011 15:05 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (5 responses)

He seems to have an awful lot of commits to his name [1] for someone who "never was an ffmpeg developer". I don't know anything about this conflict or ffmpeg development in general, but that seems quite a low blow to deny someone's contributions like that...

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/ffmpeg.git?a=search&st=author&...

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 21, 2011 15:09 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (4 responses)

Argh! Please totally ignore above message. :(:(:( I somehow entered the completely wrong name into teh search field and then didn't notice it even when pasting. And then made an incorrect conclusion based on that. It should have been this, of course:
http://repo.or.cz/w/ffmpeg.git?a=search&st=author&...
which makes your message entirely reasonable. Please accept my utmost apologies!

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 22, 2011 6:08 UTC (Sat) by gabucino (guest, #72504) [Link] (3 responses)

Try this one: http://repo.or.cz/w/mplayer.git?a=search&h=HEAD&s...

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 0:02 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Just goes to show I should've just kept my uninformed self out of things entirely. :)

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 1:16 UTC (Tue) by lu_zero (guest, #72556) [Link] (1 responses)

FFmpeg != MPlayer

Does FFmpeg and other FOSS development makes people better or worse?

Posted Jan 25, 2011 6:39 UTC (Tue) by gabucino (guest, #72504) [Link]

Next time please prefix with "BEWARE! Groundbreaking new information!"

.. you were saying?