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How did those users come to learn about VLC Player and what would stop them from learning about the fork the same way?
by fmx 9y ago
How did those users come to learn about VLC Player and what would stop them from learning about the fork the same way?
- jbk 9y agoThat would take years.
- mook 9y agoRemember OpenOffice.org? That is still getting ~100,000 downloads a day in April this year [1]. That's after all the Linux distros moved to LibreOffice for years. Forks work for moving development, but not necessarily for moving users. [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/729460/ https://lwn.net/Articles/729460/
- sounds 9y agoMySQL and MariaDB are another example, if you need one. :)
- cygx 9y agoHow did those users come to learn about VLC Player A computer-savvy acquaintance installed it for them once upon a time.
- bigbugbag 9y agoIt seems you never had to deal with such users, they talk about that orange thing or the traffic cone. Which should be more than enough to explain why they would not migrate.