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0 pointsSupermancho2y ago0 comments

> without knowing what VideoLAN's revenue looks like you can't say for certain that VideoLAN don't actually depend on it.

This is a matter of how someone might interpret "depends".

If you meant "effectively will cease to exist", that is incorrect.

If you meant that VideoLAN depends on Unity the same way I depend on the 5 dollars in my pocket to be fungible...VideoLAN still exists without Unity, same as I exist without the 5 dollars in my pocket.

There's nothing more to it, afaik.

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glenstein2y ago

Right, I think this is a nothingburger - they 'depend' in the sense of leaving it up to Unity to honor a defined set of responsibilities on their side of a relationship. I think there was no need to get into whether this posed any sort of existential threat to VLC.

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