Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It’s an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you’re really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don’t care.
and with enough money I don’t care.
Most people are like you.
Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth’s natural history.
I’ve come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.
Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.
If most humans were like Kempf (we’re not), we’d actually have a chance.
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I don’t think this hypothetical is about winning so much as never having to worry about your needs being met again. The calculus changes completely for a lot of people (not optimistic enough to say most) if that’s not part of the equation.
vlc it really whips the llamas ass
…with a traffic cone
Why is their logo a traffic cone ? 😅
I love VLC and use it almost everyday :)
I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.
WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!
You feel things very deeply my friend. I applaud you
À true hero. Go strong Jean Baptiste !
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
Seriously the best player. I’ve installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.
Mpc is better
While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.
I don’t understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.
Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.
It’s open source. Anyone could fork it.
should have taken the money.
