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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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profsummergig ◴[11 Nov 25 19:14 UTC] No.45891496[source]▶
A bunch of people who make era-defining software for free. A labor of love.

Another bunch of people who make era-defining software where they extract everything they can. From customers, transactionally. From the first bunch, pure extraction (slavery, anyone?).

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ivell ◴[11 Nov 25 19:20 UTC] No.45891584[source]▶
Irrespective of what Google does, security research is still useful for all of us.

They could adopt a more flexible policy for FOSS though.

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1. xuhu ◴[11 Nov 25 20:19 UTC] No.45892299[source]▶
It's as useful as brute forcing one of your neighbor's 100 online passwords every day and writing it on the door of a random supermarket.