2009-06-01, 11:45
dmidi Wrote:The general churlishness comes from the fact that most XBMC developers feel threatened anytime someone comes along with the 'next best thing'. It's not that they don't believe something will be better, they just don't want to believe their past contributions will lose stature.
Take OpenCL for instance...people get pumped up about a new GPU-CPU coding paradigm and all the handtuning done for CPU codecs is suddenly threatened.
What do threatened parties do when exposed to the subversive force of progress that threatens their status? In the 1940's they held book burning parties. Today, they treat you with less civility and shut down threads (like the Open CL thread).
I think you are crossing a few lines here