Jean-Baptiste Kempf
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's such a faster network effect, you know.
I can open a cafe and that can be my passion project, but I have to get building codes.
I have to build a building.
I have to find a location.
I have to do all sorts of things.
Well, in the software world, that passion project can move quickly.
It can be amplified by the network effect.
And that amplification can be more than the sum of the parts.
You can find people interested in...
in extremely obscure things and have a network effect and make something that is truly amazing.
Wow.
Linus' passion for it.
Hey, uploading this tarball to an FTP, like deal with it.
Are they competitors?
I don't think they're competitors.
I think the simple answer is, the short answer before I go into detail is VLC is to FFmpeg as Android is to Linux.
So they depend on each other, but they coexist because of each other.
So they are a binary star system is the analogy I used.
Hence the three-body problem.
But anyway.