(2015-11-29, 03:57)madshi Wrote: Would you like it if somebody came along, copied all the good ideas from Kodi (but no source code, to make it legal), named it something else, without giving any credit to you, and then tried to steal users away from Kodi by claiming that their software had all the important Kodi features and at better quality (when both is not true)?
lol, there is a new fork of Kodi every week at least
It's another take at being successful.
BTW, that's exactly the open-source philosophy. You make my point that you are miles away from our values...
We are not doing Kodi for glory, we are doing it because it's useful to us, and if others can make it even better, good for us.
If you invented new algorithms, patent them, or go commercial. That would make sense.
Re your "war" with mpv, at the end of the day
they were picked by Plex, whatever the reason is. It makes me think that if you had collaborated with them, you'd be part of the success, rather than being bitter..
(2015-11-29, 03:57)madshi Wrote: I've been developing eac3to and madVR for almost 10 years now. Doesn't that speak for itself about my commitment? Do you think that after I invested tens of thousands of hours into these projects, I would suddenly let them die? I can understand if you'd prefer Kodi to have nothing to do with closed source library/components. But if they can provide a noticeable upgrade for users, is your ideology more important than the user experience?
I don't even doubt your commitment, but nobody's eternal. You can be blown up by a terrorist or killed by a madmen with war weapons today, depending on what side of the atlantic you live.
Then your hard work will be lost forever and fade into oblivion.
Open-source IS eternal (depending on how relevant it is, of course).
BTW, I didn't realize you do eac3to as well. Man, how frustrated I was knowing there was a piece of freeware doing SSIF demultiplexing but closed-source, so that I had to (badly) re-invent the wheel...