Kieran Kunhya

I'm not the one who created VLC because actually no one did, right?

So I arrived in 2003 and then I will create the open source nonprofit organization called Videoland.

And I took everything out of the university to create a nonprofit project and some things sustainable.

Yes, it's true that I spent more time than anyone on VLC and Videoland, that is sure.

But it's a continuity of a previous project, Videoland, the student project, which is a continuity of the Network 2000 project, which is a continuity of that and that.

And I can tell you that in 2005, the project should have died.

And I made it to continue the project.

At some point, we were only two active developers.

And I thought it was great technology and was useful, and it will be useful.

And I made that my life and my time.

And I made that grow from a few hundreds of thousands of users, millions of users, to what we have now, which is probably billions of versions of VLC around the world and used everywhere.

So...

That's a bit the story of VLC.

There is a ton of very funny story around that.

Many people from around the world working on it, like you said, in Syria or middle of nowhere in India.

But along the way, I got several offers, which were either to bundle toolbars, right?

You remember those horrible toolbars, which were basically spyware.

or changing your web browser or your search engine or even like advertisement inside VLC.

And I didn't like that, right?

And people don't understand that.