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:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
20 Feb 2019 17:54:48 +0000
Message-Id: <20190220175442.GA17908@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting David Niklas ####@####.####
> 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.
Really tough questions best resolved by three days at a conference are
indeed not likely to be solved by asking questions on LUG mailing lists,
but on the other hand are equally unlikely by asking busy IT-professional
casual acquaintances questions in private e-mail.
On the other matter, distance, I happen to be an active participant in
mailing lists of LUGs in Melbourne, NSW Australia, and one in Orlando,
Florida, and one in Oslo, Norway, _and_ was one for Ireland until it fell
apart -- although my home is about 60 km south of San Francisco.
Geography is not an impediment to to mailing list membership.
> > 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.
Well, that's the thing with proprietary software: Corporate policies
you admire today can be replace tomorrow, and you cannot simply fork the
code to get away from that problem. Anyone who didn't know that when
they signed up with the proprietary software firm hasn't paid attention
to, y'know, all of Linux history.
And also, if you aren't even a customer, you have no recourse against
abusive treatment under the implied covenant of good fatih and fair
dealing or any other portion of contract law. You are just product.
