[jbk]

(President of VideoLAN here).

So far, VideoLabs is hiring most of the VLC core developers and those people are the main force of development of VLC. It's setup this way so that if the Videolabs company does not live forever, VLC stays forever free, and the non-profit lives.

This is quite classic of open source projects, and in the case of VideoLAN, there are 3 or 4 companies doing consulting.

[NoahKAndrews]

Very cool, that definitely makes sense! I've edited my comment, apologies for that. Hopefully bringing attention to the fact that you guys are easily available for hire ends up doing more good than harm.

[squigz]

What does this mean? What harm does it do?

[jdbernard]

The harm I imagine would be the reputation damage from people believing that "they are intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking that they are the developers of VLC." NoahKAndrews, having been informed that these really are the devs of VLC, is hoping his earlier, uninformed statement did not cause too many people to think poorly of VideoLabs.

[TheAmazingRace]

I love this model! Love what you guys do, and please keep up the good work.