discuss: Re: Video Streaming to TV, Casting to TV, Play Movie HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Video Streaming to TV, Casting to TV, Play Movie HOWTO
From:
David Niklas ####@####.####
Date:
20 Feb 2019 17:08:51 +0000
Message-Id: <20190220120816.22aaf607@Phenom-II-x6.niklas.com>
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 07:38:01 -0800
Rick Moen ####@####.#### wrote:
> Quoting David Niklas ####@####.####
> > Sadly, I've been at a loss for information in this area. Might I PM
> > you at some future date if I have a question?
>
> I and many other people who run their own Internet servers can be found
> as regulars on Linux user group mailing lists, and it's most appropriate
> to seek help there in LUGs' public forums, so that other people can
> benefit from the discussion. You will find that private help is
> generally not available free of charge from casual acquaintances.
> (That's called 'consulting'. ;-> )
I don't mean to presume. I just keep an eye out for especially smart
people because the nearest LUG is 200 miles away :( (estimate based on
known data, not an exaggeration)! I also tend to ask the questions to
which there are no answers, or at least nobodies telling. :)
The last time I had a really tough question I spent 3 days at a conference
on the general topic. I did get an answer, but the expense and time makes
it something I can't do every few months.
> > It is really silly isn't it? When I first heard about the deal to
> > sell to MS I was uncertain whether I should laugh or cry. I stuck
> > with laughing, it's more fun!
>
> I'm still puzzled why so many people seemed upset at the news, as it was
> just one proprietary software company buying another proprietary
> software company -- which happens all the time. I can only guess that
> some people mistook GitHub, Incorporated for some sort of public
> institution or utility.
There's a difference between MS and github. One is known to be predatory,
the other does not appear to be.
> More broadly, I suspect many people who relied on GitHub had the
> mistaken impression they were customers. Back when SourceForge was
> created by my employer VA Linux Systems, I noticed some in the Linux
> community suffered the same confusion -- even when CEO Larry Augustin
> decided to yank the firm out of the hardware business and convert it
> into a proprietary software firm (at first called VA Software
> Corporation, and then SourceForge, Inc.)
>
> Larry has, of late, ended up as CEO of yet another proprietary software
> company, SugarCRM, the firm that pioneered abusing GPLv3 with
> 'badgeware' appendix clauses to try to claim that their proprietary
> commercial offering is open source -- and I'll bet many SugarCRM users
> mistakenly think they're customers, too. There's an old saying that, if
> you're not the person paying, then you're not the customer but rather
> the product -- and so it is with all of these offerings, including
> GitHub.
I'll duckduckgo it as I've not heard of that.
Thanks!
