[Piracy Cop]

First of all, I wasn't even talking to you. It was DaveBlake I was addressing. If you don't agree with what I say, that's fine. We all have differing opinions. Don't call what I've written "crap." I haven't said that about what you've written; do not say that about what I have written.

[trogggy]

If you don't agree with what I say, that's fine. We all have differing opinions. Don't call what I've written "crap." I haven't said that about what you've written; do not say that about what I have written.

What should i call it if I think it's crap?

[Piracy Cop]

You can say you agree to disagree. You, me or anyone else is in no position to say anything anyone here has written is crap. We are not children. Let's not act like them.

[trogggy]

You can say you agree to disagree. You, me or anyone else is in no position to say anything anyone here has written is crap. We are not children. Let's not act like them.

But I don't agree to disagree. I think what you've written is uninformed crap.
Saying anything else would be disingenuous.

If you like I can soften the pill, by saying you clearly don't understand Team Kodi's position which is why you're writing doo-doo silly posts.
Better?

[Piracy Cop]

Okay. The gloves are off. And you're a fucking Frog. Better, asshole?!

[trogggy]

Not really, as I'm not French. Thanks for playing though.

I see 'We are not children' didn't last long.

[trogggy]

Okay. The gloves are off. And you're a fucking Frog. Better, asshole?!

Not really, as I'm not French. Thanks for playing though.

I see 'We are not children' didn't last long.

[DaveBlake]

Don't talk down to me.

That is very hard not to do.

Why would you continue developing something that very few people use? Don't give me hogwash about getting your cookies by collaborating with intelligent colleagues.

I happily dev software only one person uses i.e. me, having others to work with is more fun (most of the time) and enables greater things to be achieved in a shorter time. I happily contribute to the community too, but none of us need millions of users with all the naging, moaning, and expectant demanding that comes with it. No "hogwash", you obviously know very little about open source.

* ronie mumbles something about not feeding the trolls.

So true. This thread isn't going to last much longer is it.

[Piracy Cop]

Not really, as I'm not French. Thanks for playing though.

I see 'We are not children' didn't last long.

Calling what I post "crap" isn't childish, though, is it? You're on ignore.

[bry]

Okay. The gloves are off. And you're a fucking Frog. Better, asshole?!

You are on thin ice. Knock it off

[Kib]

Don't feed the troll guys

[Koying]

Why would you continue developing something that very few people use?

And that's the point about you not having a clue about what FLOSS is.
We don't care *at all* about other people using it. We develop it for our own use, and are open enough to share binaries with those interested.

Don't think about us as a "Roku-like". Roku is a commercial business taking your money. We are not.

We use the Roku for paid add-ons like Hulu and Netflix

And that's why you don't get it. Kodi was made to play content you *own*, CD / DVD / BD, most often ripped as easy to manage files on disk.
Addons were an afterthought, which was abused by pirates.

Should Firefox remove video playback ability to avoid it being used to play illegal streams, although it's not it's "core usage"? Nope.
Should VLC be burned at the stake because it allows to playback illegal streams? Nope.
So Kodi shouldn't remove the addon system because it can be abused...

Now that it's clear you are arguing about something you have no clue about (which can be defined as trolling), I think a mod could close this thread.

[Prof Yaffle]

This thread is going around in circles.

It's been more than explained that folks develop this for fun, not profit.

It's been explained that it's a legal obligation under the terms of the licence to release the code, and that the code could thus be modified immediately if third-party addons were blocked.

It's been explained that there is a significant number of users (yes, I'm another one) who do not do any streaming of any kind, so the assertion that "most users" and similar is baseless. And, even if it isn't, losing a few million free-loading, entitled muppets would upset precisely no-one in the team.

So... closed.

[Memphiz]

Can we please simply close the forum for 2 weeks or 2 years or so - that would roughly indicate how much i care about the userbase.