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www.videolan.org/images/press/vlc-3.0-ubuntu.jpg

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www.videolan.org/images/press/vlc-3.0-windows11.jpg

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<p>Our objective is to help and foster research, education and development of free and interoperable multimedia solutions. For more than twenty years, we welcome contributions from more than 1000 independent developers from more than 100 countries to fulfill our mission, on numerous pieces of software, including VLC.</p>
<?php image("press/vlc-3.0-windows11.jpg" , "VLC 3.0 Windows 11", "center-block img-responsive"); ?>
<p>As numerous other open-source organizations, we are socially aware and we care a lot about people and our users.<br />
However, we've always tried to limit our political positions to fights against digital rights management, software patents and for full interoperability. We do this to stay focused on our core mission.<br />
For other fights like Net neutrality, Free Data archiving, Equal access to development, we've always donated to other non-profits and kept those discussions outside of VideoLAN.</p>
<p>During the ongoing Syrian civil war for the last decade, we saw our software used for information purposes but also for distractions in challenging times. We also received major contributions to our project directly from contested areas resulting in full support for the Arabic language and making our software more accessible.</p>
<?php image("press/vlc-3.0-ubuntu.jpg" , "VLC 3.0 Ubuntu", "center-block img-responsive"); ?>
<p>On February 24 this year, we saw a major disruption with Russia's invasion of Ukraine that likely resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and a permanent change to the political landscape. This led to unprecendented discussions of the VideoLAN board and across the non-profit, knowing that we have French, German and Russian citizens on the board, and we have members from numerous European countries including Ukrainian citizens.</p>
<p>We decided that our current contributions to information liberty were deficient to retain the current state of affairs and that we had to go beyond.</p>
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