he could have stepped back much earlier

phpnode · on July 31, 2015

or someone else could have stepped up much earlier?

thresh · on July 31, 2015

Well people actually have tried that 4 years ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/123868

and somehow leadership was still a thing for Michael at that time, which really contradicts with something he says now.

phpnode · on July 31, 2015

That looks very much like a hostile takeover, it's unsurprising that it failed.

makomk · on July 31, 2015

It was very much a hostile takeover. If I remember correctly, the people who controlled the infrastructure like the website and mailing list booted out not only Michael but also a bunch of the existing maintainers of ffmpeg code and it got really ugly.

lu_zero_ · on July 31, 2015

You might check your facts before spouting this kind of sentences.

Sadly the people on the Libav side never spoke up and nobody really checked or asked since they are "EVIL".