Kieran Kunhya

like the when we talk to that person right he was just like a manager on one project in microsoft teams right he had like never really discussed with open source community he had no idea right it was like and but the problem is that usually there is what we call ospos right open source program offices in those type of companies and they are the ones who are supposed to discuss with open source vendors um or open source communities but like

they often don't explain that correctly internally, right?

And here it's just like

We are not your supplier.

If you want me to be your supplier, I'm very happy, right?

I will send you a contract and SLAs.

I created five companies who are doing that around open source projects, so that's okay.

And on video learning, it's the same, right?

Like, for example, a very simple example,

For more than a year, we couldn't update VLC on Android because of a bug on the Play Store, on Android Play Store, right?

The only way we got someone to answer was to put a very spicy, as you say, tweet saying that we were going to stop distributing VLC for Android, right?

And we have around 100 million people using that.

And now, then...

someone from Android actually came and discussed to us, right?

We had the same issue with Microsoft, like saying that we were going to stop distributing VLC on the Windows Store.

And unfortunately, we are so small that the only very strong power we have to solve those issues is blaming on social network because it's nobles and now they listen to us.

But those large companies often have difficulty

talking to us.

Like, for example, VLC is probably one of the top 10 software used on Windows.

I am not part of Microsoft ISV programs, right?