Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…To be fair, on Apple, when you type GCC, you get Clang. Like they, they did something like that as well, so. Yeah. So to me it’s like the fork was like heated drama, but most of the development from Libav was merged back into FFmpeg, right? So de facto FFmpeg got a superset around Libav, and so that gave the user, because in the end we work for the users, a larger set of features and a ton of things that were discussed. For example, the debate on reviews, on how we push, are something that now is completely settled in FFmpeg and is following what mostly what everyone in the community agrees, right? So de facto, everyone who was active on Libav came back and worked on FFmpeg because the disagreements were fixed, and in the end, FFmpeg is stronger than it was before, right? And- … I know people love drama, but- Well, my main concern, I understand, and I think looking at the long history, it’s all for the good. But I do… I am concerned because there’s so few humans that are critical to the success of open source projects that I have seen it be a psychological toll on folks and, you know, sometimes leads to burnout. So you have these incredible people that are at the core of open source projects. There is a moment that happens ’cause, like, what is the motivation of doing it? Ultimately, it’s because you’re passionate about it and it makes you happy. Then at a certain point, you wake up and it’s like, “This has been a bit too much heat from the drama.” So, like, at the project level, the project continues and often flourishes. But sometimes there’s these individual humans that are just like- But-…

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