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Old 04-17-2010, 01:21 AM
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Re: Holy War: Windows vs. Linux, open source vs. propritary soft, command line vs. GU


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Originally Posted by hyc View Post
And just to further emphasize that point - I'm not the original developer of rtmpdump, I forked it after the original project got shut down. I had a bunch of bug fixes for it, and didn't want to just keep them in a private stash forever. Anyone else can do the same if they don't like the direction I've taken it.
There are many proprietary programs that use plug-ins. You can write a plug-in if you don't like a default one or need some additional functionality. And many proprietary programs just don't need any improvements from the community. They avoid open source only because they don't want any clones using their code.
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