VLC and Qt – A History [video]

Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video] by dry_soup on Sunday November 15, 2020 @04:27PM (#25105037)

1. One great thing about open source is that nobody is forcing you to upgrade. You can stick with VLC 3.x forever, and as mentioned in the video, it will be a long-term support release.

2. Jean-Baptiste Kempf was offered tens of millions of euros to put ads in VLC, but turned down the offer (link in French)[1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/736ghk/ama_je_suis_...

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Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video] by cm2187 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:43PM (#25106602)

Except that codecs and hardware won't stop evolving.

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Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video] by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:16PM (#25107226)

And let's not forget that codecs have a long and terrible history of security issues. There's a reason that they're a poster child for fuzzing.

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Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video] by symlinkk on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:02PM (#25106748)

Nothing about open source allows you to use an old and unsupported piece of software

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Re:VLC and Qt – A History [video] by httpsterio on Sunday November 15, 2020 @10:55PM (#25107809)

It literally does. As the source is available, you can always compile whatever version you happen to have the sources for. Nobody is forcing anyone to upgrade, there's just no guarantees either.

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