I ain't reading all of that Happy for you Or sorry that happened On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 3:47 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote:
> Vittorio Giovara (12023-12-05): > > Your attitude for "omgfeatures" is also pretty toxic, there are heaps of > > literature about feature creep and how important it is to remove dead > code. > > You should read said literature before quoting it, you would learn the > difference between more features and feature creep: creeping features > make it harder to maintain core features. > > So, can you prove that this QOA decoder makes it harder to maintain the > framework of FFmpeg? No, you cannot. > > > Uhhh, but maybe I'm just misinterpreting your message, but that looks > like > > a very ignorant comparison. > > It is not ignorant at all, you show exactly the same argument structure. > > Homophobes cannot prove homosexuality causes objective and immediate > harm to anybody. > > You cannot prove that Paul's code causes objective and immediate harm to > the project. > > So homophobes resort to invoking a vague harm to society / youth / > whatever. > > So you resort to invoking a vague harm to a generation. > > You do it because you have a strong intuition that it is true. > > Homophobes have a strong intuition that it is true too. > > But intuition without arguments has no place in a debate, it cannot > convince anybody. > > And your intuition is just as wrong as the homophobes'. > > In this instance, your intuition is wrong because it applies to FFmpeg > what it knows about professional projects — open or closed source — > whereas FFmpeg is not a professional project but a Libre Software > projects whose most talented contributors work for fun. > > In a professional project, the time and effort of developers is limited > and must be focused on useful things. In a project like FFmpeg, the time > and effort that talented developers invest in the project grows as they > can work on fun tasks, even when said tasks are of limited usefulness. > > A sure way of killing a project like FFmpeg is to prevent people from > working on the things they find fun and try to force them to do useful > things instead, either by outright rejecting if you have the authority > or by drowning them with bickering and demands, like you did with > Michael and like you just ran Paul out. > > Good job. > > -- > Nicolas George > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > -- Vittorio _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".