Ok, I thought it was that because libva claims the move is because of a name problem but you're certainly right.
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A Group Of FFmpeg Developers Just Forked As Libav
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Originally posted by WillyThePimp View PostThis, in my opinion, is the principle that has held the whole GNU/Linux progress back.
You disagree with the project's goals? Fork. You Disagree for the sake of disagreeing? Fork. You feel god and you think you could do a much better job than those who made the original piece of software, though it's completely untrue? Fork and let die.
Want to create more fragmentation? Fork.
This Fork, like many others, the only thing that will achieve is to reduce the man-power that could be devoted to one single project and create a lot of redundant work, leaving critical issues unattended or severely weakened.
Some folks do seem to give new life and new blood to projects. Libreoffice and Xonotic spring to mind.
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Originally posted by Nevertime View PostOf course without details we have no idea if there's good reason for a fork at the moment but your making a generalization here.
Some folks do seem to give new life and new blood to projects. Libreoffice and Xonotic spring to mind.
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Forking is almost always bad, but the ability to fork is a good thing. It provides the balance of power that an open source project needs: dictator goes crazy, dictator goes away. Most of the time it prevents the dictator from going crazy in the first place.
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Originally posted by Francesco Cosoleto View PostThis is a bad news. As there are good developers on both sides, would be better if they work together instead. Unfortunately looks they cannot do that anymore.
That's another, just as valid, way of looking at it if you ask me.
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