[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg naming and logo (original) (raw)

Rich Felker dalias
Fri Feb 17 17:17:25 CET 2006

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:55:35AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:

Rich Felker writes:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:47:07AM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote: >> I suppose you dont use a mobile phone because the embedded and network >> software arent opensource? > > No because it really has no impact on usability. You use a phone to > talk, not to run programs. There is no stored data locked away in a > proprietary format. Sure there is. The address book in many phones is not open in any way. I don't care much, since it is only a small amount of information, but it is a little annoying. It gets especially annoying when the windows program to access it that comes with the phone doesn't work.

Yes, I really don't care about that sort of thing I suppose..

> It is not hypocritical because I am using a phone to talk, not as > the logo for free software... > >> Ditto your car? > > There is hardly software in my car, unless you call a few hundred > bytes of code on the tiny embedded system that controls the check > engine light software.

I don't know what you drive, but most cars less than ten years old have software controlling much more than that.

My car is almost 20 years old. :)

Rich

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