# HG changeset patch
# User gabucino
# Date 1002561641 0
# Node ID d756279ea665f84418570fef921566bc6498c724
# Parent  f13d61fde30dbd548c62fd9e6705a541860bb72e
I liked this mail very much

diff -r f13d61fde30d -r d756279ea665 DOCS/faq.html
--- a/DOCS/faq.html	Mon Oct 08 09:48:07 2001 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/faq.html	Mon Oct 08 17:20:41 2001 +0000
@@ -58,6 +58,39 @@
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 <TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
+...gcc 2.96... (yes, some people are STILL flaming about their gcc 2.96!!)
+</B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
+<P>But we has idegs (the word 'ideg' is described further in the FAQ). And our
+idegcounters overflow again and again.</P>
+
+<P>Unfortunately MPlayer is out of our control. It's used by lamers, Linux users
+who can't even use windows, and never tried to compile a kernel. They installed
+(with default options) Mandrake or RedHat or Suse, and without RTFM'ing they
+send messages saying 'it doesn't work! help me! please! i'm new to the linux!
+help! oh! help me!'. We can't stop them, but at least we try to force them RTFM
+and to read fuckin' messages of ./configure and mplayer.</P>
+
+<P>And you clever guys come and flame us with gcc 2.96 and binary packages.
+Instead of helping users or making patches to help solve problems.</P>
+
+<P>Half of our spare/free time is spent by answering silly mails here and
+making newer tricks and checks to configure to avoid such mails.</P>
+
+<P>And there is a balance. On one hand are you, clever guys, saying we are very
+bad because we don't like buggy gcc 2.96, and at the other hand there are the
+'new to linux' guys who are showing us gcc 2.96 is buggy.</P>
+
+<P>Conclusinion: we can't be good. Half of people always will say we are bad.</P>
+
+<P>Maybe we should close the project, make it closed source, commercial, and
+provide install support for it. then we could leave current work, so
+development could go faster, and we earn lots of money with it and buy a big
+house, etc etc. Do you really want it? It seems.</P>
+
+<P ALIGN=RIGHT>Arpi (a mail on the mplayer-users list)</P>
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+
+<TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Q:</TD><TD WIDTH=100%><B><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
 SDL output doesn't work or compile. Problem is ....
 </B></TD><TR><TD></TD><TD VALIGN=top><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>A:</TD><TD><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
 It is tested with newest SDL (probably runs on 1.1.7+).