VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro")

Re:VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") by zobzu on Monday December 10, 2012 @09:33PM (#4902769)

Personally I feel like the 40K GBP should go to all the devs of VLC combined. Porting to metro is only a small part of VLC itself, and is not worth 40K GBP.

What makes it worth that money, and that people will pay for it, is that VLC is the hard work of all the _previous_ developers.

So while I'm all for giving people money to make an open source project advance, I feel a little wrong about this very one.

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Re:VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") by i386 on Monday December 10, 2012 @10:48PM (#4902931)

What? then have no VLC for metro because they gave the kitty away and had no work done at all? Defeats the purpose don't you think?

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Re:VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") by zobzu on Saturday December 15, 2012 @03:00AM (#4924891)

No, it'll be done anyway. Do you think ppl got paid to make vlc or mplayer to begin with?

It seems too hard for the human mind to understand that the people who make 90% of the work for free going unrewarded is wrong. Now then again, it certainly fits the way the rest of the world works.

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Re:VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") by jbk on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:30AM (#4904111)

You totally miss the point. The point is to speed up the development for Metro.

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Re:VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience ("Metro") by zobzu on Saturday December 15, 2012 @03:01AM (#4924892)

The point is to raise money, period. That's like saying a knife is not made to cut.

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