The one who kept VLC free

Re:The one who kept VLC free by heyoni on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:00AM (#21070306)

I know right? So many good projects have failed to maintain their integrity and changed for the worst. It’s hard to trust software these days but there are exceptions and VLC is one of them.

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Re:The one who kept VLC free by nameless912 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:47AM (#21071277)

Looking at you, uTorrent. It went from the most easily recommendable torrent client to an utter piece of garbage overnight.

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Re:The one who kept VLC free by nojvek on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:52PM (#21076835)

I'm looking at you Whatsapp. The founders clearly lied in the manifesto and sold their soul to Facebook which Zuckerberg was more than happy to take advantage of.

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Re:The one who kept VLC free by jacquesm on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:53AM (#21070770)

It didn't help that at some point on of the main distribution points for FOSS shipped archives stuffed with malware that the authors had no idea about.

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Re:The one who kept VLC free by phkahler on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:44AM (#21071249)

Yeah, I used to place some trust in programs under certain licenses, or downloaded from that place. Now the license is a hard requirement and so is not being from that place.

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Re:The one who kept VLC free by lone_haxx0r on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:55PM (#21086977)

Do you mean Sourceforge, Softonic or both?

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