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		dineshp2 on Feb 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released I have been following the development of Openshot for the past 3 years and I can't help but think that the progress is very slow. Being an open source project and one in which a sufficiently large number of people are interested, why is that the project is moving so slowly?

rogerbinns on Feb 10, 2016 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_sec...

The authors decided to redo the underlying library. And change the user interface. And go cross platform. That amounts to a virtual rewrite from scratch.

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