Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…But also it’s for me, right? I’m like very selfishly, I need to go to bed at night and be happy about what I’ve done, right? Maybe it’s my upbringing, maybe it’s my parents’ fault or whatever, right? But I believe there is right and wrong, right? And this was the right decision at the time. It still is. I want to be proud of what I’ve been doing. And like, if I had sold out, I would have betrayed so many other people who work here. Yeah, well, I should say me and most of the internet thank you for that decision. It’s inspiring for others I think that are pushing the open source movement forward, that it’s okay to do these kinds of huge sacrifices if you believe it’s right. And I think in that case it was right and it was the reason that VLC became as successful as it was, ’cause it’s an embodiment, it’s a symbol of like, you know, freedom and what the open source community can create. Yeah, and be a service for so many people around the world, and this is important. We should emphasize in the 2000s it was really normal to download a program and it secretly installs some spyware. It was, it was buried in very faint text or in the license text box that nobody reads at the bottom- … “Oh, I will be installing this toolbar- … and changing all these things,” and it was very common to have to, you know, you install a program to do something at the time of any sort.…

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