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One of the few honorable techies who didn't sell out




Even within people involved in the local market it is not a widespread thing, but for a year now he's been the CTO of Scaleway, one of the French cloud providers.

He’s pretty obsessed with making money off his Khyber thing afaict

That's not what a sell out means in this context. He refused offers in millions of dollars to sell VLC to possibly shady parties, thereby keeping it safe for people like us. Kyber on the other hand, is a dual licensed AGPL - commercial software. That's an entirely acceptable and respected practice in the FOSS community. That doesn't make him a sell out.

Seems like Kyber is dual-licensed AGPL and proprietary, seems like a pretty standard way to fund an open source project.

why is that a problem



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