What I don't like about it is how anti-money it is... for apparently no reason. For example, he said he doesn't want to work on it full time because then he wo

What I don't like about it is how anti-money it is... for apparently no reason. For example, he said he doesn't want to work on it full time because then he would burn out. His solution is to get a job not working on VLC and then just work on VLC full time. But that just shifts the burn out to his official employer. The main challenge is that most OSS companies don't have healthy revenue models for building B2C apps like VLC. Customers refuse to pay which is why you see companies like Facebook that make the consumer the product. If you have two products that do the same thing. A and B. A respects your privacy and charges you $1.99 per month. B sells your data and is free. ... the customers will all block to B and A will stagnate or just outright die.