VideoLAN refused dozens million dollars in exchange for the addition of advertisements and ends of doubtful code in VLC

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Did you know that the president of VideoLAN refused dozens million dollars in exchange for the addition of advertisements and ends of doubtful code in VLC? Do you know the history(story) of the icon of the multimedia reader? Or of the risk that make weigh the NSA and CIA on the project? No? Then, it's time to read the answers which the president of VideoLAN gave to the questions of the Internet users.

Numérama French Article
http://www.numerama.com/business/294426-videolan-a-refuse-des-dizaines-millions-de-dollars-pour-placer-des-contenus-publicitaires-dans-vlc.html
Reddit Thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/73hpse/vlc_creator_refused_several_tens_of_millions_of/
Post/thread from Jean-Baptiste Kempf,on Reddit
https://np.reddit.com/r/france/comments/736ghk/ama_je_suis_le_pr%C3%A9sident_de_videolan_et_le/dnnyrop/

April.org
https://www.april.org/numerama-videolan-refuse-des-dizaines-de-millions-de-dollars-pour-placer-de-la-pub-dans-vlc

In todays world such hight ethics & moral integrity should be cited as exemple.They deserve all our respect.VLC is run on 300million PCs worldwide !

Thank you VLC & Bravo !

Jodiendo
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Well, the real story, you don't read or hear about it , He probably he was asking for Euros and not dollars since our dollar is over inflated and our national debit is so critical. He better off in asking for 24 karat gold bars for every millions.. then he will set for a long time. hight ethics & moral integrity s could be the theme of the day...