Kieran Kunhya

And they start the project.

It's not even open source yet.

And they spent around three years to get the school to agree to make it open source.

Because the university wanted to get, because of the IP and copyright of the students, wanted to basically monetize these MPEG-2 decoders.

This is before... 10 years before YouTube.

You have a Pentium 60 or 75, right?

The main machine was 4886DX at 33 megahertz, right?

Especially because this is a university where you had a ton of different nationalities, right?

So there was a ton of people who wanted... So in the end, they had like several dishes on different type of satellite, right?

Because, for example, a lot of people were coming from the Maghreb or the Middle East.

And so they went to different type of satellites.

Anyway, the solution worked great.

and they started the VideoLand project.

The VideoLand project has several, and some are completely crazy solutions, like one how to create multicast on a unicast network, but let's not come to that, it's too complex.

But VideoLand client part is what became VLC.

Actually, they basically strong-armed the university to force it to open source because the university did not understand that.

And in 2001, it's still early.

But basically, yes, the university agreed early 2001 to make it open source.

I joined the project in 2003 because that's when I joined the university.

So the first thing is...