Is Jellyfin a viable open source alternative to Plex?

‪@AlexKretzschmar‬ and Adam Stacoviak weigh the pros/cons of using Jellyfin for your home theater needs instead of Plex on the "Changelog & Friends" podcast. Full audio 👉 changelog.com/friends/44
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[@krumbergify]

That is Richard Stallmans critique of “open source”. Its main “selling” point is to claim that it is better than proprietary software (and in some cases that is true), but people who only value practicality will give it up as soon as something better, open source or proprietary comes along. Free software is of course intended to be useful, but it is “sold” mainly for moral reasons, that free software respects its users freedom and privacy. Unfortunately I haven’t anyone talk about free software for the past 15 years, ever since the world went mobile/cloud.