[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 02:48:51PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 14:46 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:51:27 +0100 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>
> > wrote:
> > > > Niklas Haas (12025-01-29):
> > [...]
> >
> > > > *Some members* of
> > > > what you call community have expressed violent opposition to Michael.
> > > > But *other members* have expressed, support for Michael, yet other
> > > > members have agreed to arguments on both side successively, and the
> > > > majority have not expressed anything.
> > >
> > > The CC was elected by a majority of the GA, so for all intents and
> > purposes,
> > > the CC is the closest representation of the majority opinion as we are
> > > likely to ever have.
> >
> > 1. The GA does not represent the community
> > 2. The GA is vulnerable to a simple governance attack
> > 3. The CC vote period was extended by the person running the vote while he
> > asked
> >    specific people to join.
> > 4. from the small number of people supporting the GA system origianlly
> >    several changed their mind (both me and nicolas for example liked the
> >    GA idea originally IIRC) also paul opposed it publically immedeatly
> >    when it was announced many years ago
> >
> > We can easily have something better
> >
> > The community is thousands of people not just 49
> >
> > thx
> >
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> How are you not subject to a one-person "governance attack"?

I hate kim jong un

thx

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Breaking DRM is a little like attempting to break through a door even
though the window is wide open and the only thing in the house is a bunch
of things you dont want and which you would get tomorrow for free anyway
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