Another good lesson about why we should trust only FOSS ecosystems

    • Pwnmode@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Videolabs is what was created instead of trying to make Videolan closed source or for profit. The founder of Videolan is the founder of Videolabs. Fully intentional.

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      10 months ago

      “Every right”, sure. But people have just as much right to decide that they’re not OK with the pattern of behavior from Unity, to talk about it, and to avoid doing business with them as a result of it.

    • Noa HimesakaA
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      10 months ago

      On further inspection, Videolabs seems to be very closely related to VideoLAN. VideoLAN’s president is also the founder and CTO of Videolabs.

      Also on VideoLAN’s partner page: “Videolabs is a company founded by VideoLAN members and is the current editor of the VLC mobile applications and one of the largest contributor to VLC.”