Unity is probably developing their own video player and they wants devs to pay them for it, not use VLC for free.

This is why we need a plastic tax. If it was even slightly more expensive to use plastic they would switch back to metal or glass in a heartbeat.

I didn’t say anyone owed anyone anything. I was saying one level of frustration was understandable, one was not. Anyhow, my case happened twenty years ago when creative commons barely existed.

It depends on if the first guy is complaining about having to reinstall this specific software, or if the software borked his entire system to the point that he has to reinstall his entire OS. Because that happened to me once. But in the first scenario he is being a dick, and in the second one not so much.

It’s shedding advertisers and losing money so it’s only a matter of time before the people Musk got to invest start making noise. It’s in a downward spiral and there’s no fixing it while Musk is in charge. I think it will survive another few years, but it’s not going to be pretty.

They tried to appease the shareholders rapacious greed by changing their business model to include royalties and other random fees, but that failed so now they’ve laid off 25% of the workforce to free up a lot of cash short term. This is a desperation move and they’re never going to be able to provide the endless growth the shareholders demand. But the shareholders will be appeased for the next few months. So I guess it’s a win?