This is a lot of words to say very little. There are two main reasons why VLC is good. The first is that it's open source. The second is that it gets to ignore

This is a lot of words to say very little. There are two main reasons why VLC is good. The first is that it's open source. The second is that it gets to ignore software patents (on the codecs) since France doesn't recognize them. I'm surprised the article didn't mention the second. Personally, I prefer mpv though.