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Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers

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sopuli.xyzMicrosoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers - SopuliMicrosoft employee: >Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help Maintainer’s comment on twitter: [https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178805704888726] >After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead. >This is unacceptable. And further: >The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won’t get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years. >But try selling that to a bean counter
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vzq

FFMPEG is a core technology. You literally cannot do anything with video without touching FFMPEG at multiple places in the stack.

The fact that we have billions of dollars of revenue flowing through that software every day, but we rely on VOLUNTEERS to maintain it shows exactly how hollow the whole SV entrepreneur culture really is.

Bunch of fucking posers wouldn’t know performance code if it kicked them in the face.

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grue

The fact that we have billions of dollars of revenue flowing through that software every day, but we rely on VOLUNTEERS to maintain it shows exactly how hollow the whole SV entrepreneur culture really is.

Exactly: I’m not mad about important things being run by volunteers – arguably, that’s a good thing because it means project decisions are made uncorrupted by profit motive – but I am mad about the profit being reaped elsewhere on the backs of their free labor.

Cassandrich

@grue @vzq The key is that these folks are supposed to have both freedom & power to set direction independent of corporate shit, *and* compensation for their labor.

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