Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by DonHopkins » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 11:58 AM UTC

majkinetor wrote: post #169

derefr wrote: post #158

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> Instead of improving usability for everyone, they're more interested in adding yet another obscure anime decoder feature so they can watch their AMV cartoon porn Mind you, FOSS is contributed to by people scratching their own itch. It's not so much that VLC has a lot of otaku developers; it's that a lot of people who watch (or subtitle) "AMV cartoon porn" see a problem with, or missing feature in, VLC, and think "I…

Its very hard to contribute patch to foss tool in general. There is no substitution for agile development team.

Oh I certainly wanted to contribute to the VLC project and integrate it into my own projects, but after having my concerns that I wrote up in great detail flippantly dismissed with such contempt, and seeing how the exact same thing happened to other users reporting legitimate longstanding bugs who were brushed off and ignored over so many years, I had no interest in contributing after that. It's fortunate that not every open source project suffers from such arrogant developers as VLC.

Re: Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

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Post by cr0sh » Mon, Feb 06, 2017, 8:19 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #133

sametmax wrote: post #110

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I'm not exaggerating by one bit. At best you had an "ok" situation. Nothing like the "rock star" attitude you get today. Not only geeks where the less popular in school, but the media mocked them. And this snowballed into the workplace where the only people threated like the IT department was the accounting one. The pay was not nearly in the same area. Nobody would consider buying a dual screen for their IT dev a min…

"At best you had an "ok" situation. Nothing like the "rock star" attitude you get today." Not being rock star is not an oppression. The ok treatment is what majority of people have. I mean, not being treated as something super special is not "considered less that nothing by society". It is being considered normal. "And this snowballed into the workplace where the only people threated like the IT department was the ac…

Regarding the IT department thing:

From my first job to my current one, I always made sure I was in good stead with the IT department (whatever its size) - it was where I could get cast-off hardware for my computer junk pile!

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