Re: Why has the Metrowerks sign been taken down?

Brian wrote, unto moi:
> But you do use VLC. Correct?

once every month or so. three out of five times it turns out it can't play
the file that quicktime couldn't play, so it was a wash.

> As I do. Which I'm very thankful for, or else a number of AVIs and
> MPGs I have would not play. Why? Because there is no other
> convenient player with all the codecs VLC supports. And given it's
> free I would check again to see if you can find any bit
> of gratitude.

"gratitude" does not include telling the authors it's great when it isn't.
that's called "lying." if there was a nicer app that played as many types of
files as vlc does, but cost 50 bucks, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.

> As for being saved by "large programs" don't count on it.

i don't recall saying anything for or against the size of a program, relative
to its merit. i think it's you who brought that up, just now.

> How you build the GUI is not inherently dictated by whether or not
> you have the words "OpenSource" hiding in your product's license.

i'd love to believe that. if i saw two or three open source apps with decent
guis, then i would. so far i haven't seen even one, after decades of trying.
that leads me to believe open source projects will never have decent guis.
duh.
.

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