โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‘‘ FYI - This man, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, built VLC, turned down stupid money just to keep it ad-free, and still gave it to us for free. Absolute hero.

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VLC is truly peak software: free, ad-free, and works better than paid apps. He turned down offers worth millions to keep the software free, open-source, and ad-free. A true choice of integrity! Respect.
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frphank 1 month ago
Didn't he also build QEMU and once held the record for computing the most digits of pi.
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