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Seems like they're not just "someone".
Videolabs is what was created instead of trying to make Videolan closed source or for profit. The founder of Videolan is the founder of Videolabs. Fully intentional.
"Every right", sure. But people have just as much right to decide that they're not OK with the pattern of behavior from Unity, to talk about it, and to avoid doing business with them as a result of it.