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A comment on FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader. Parent comment

Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by makomk on Friday July 31, 2015 @11:39AM (#9982403)
It was very much a hostile takeover. If I remember correctly, the people who controlled the infrastructure like the website and mailing list booted out not only Michael but also a bunch of the existing maintainers of ffmpeg code and it got really ugly.
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Re:FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader by lu_zero_ on Friday July 31, 2015 @12:06PM (#9982541)
You might check your facts before spouting this kind of sentences.

Sadly the people on the Libav side never spoke up and nobody really checked or asked since they are "EVIL".

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