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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 7 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 1.26s | source | bottom
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justahuman74 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:36 UTC] No.45891782[source]▶
Does Google seriously not have a whole team of people who help maintain ffmpeg?
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adastra22 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:56 UTC] No.45892013[source]▶
Yes. But they don’t upstream. Why would they?
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1. justahuman74 ◴[11 Nov 25 20:43 UTC] No.45892550[source]▶
Great, they can fix the bugs being filed by another part of their company
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2. Ferret7446 ◴[11 Nov 25 20:50 UTC] No.45892646[source]▶
So would you rather Google have a secure ffmpeg while us plebian individual users continue to have an insecure ffmpeg?
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3. warkdarrior ◴[12 Nov 25 00:44 UTC] No.45894991[source]▶
They probably fixed in the internal version.
4. GaryBluto ◴[12 Nov 25 07:37 UTC] No.45897331[source]▶
It's frustrating to me how many people are siding with FFmpeg here considering how unprofessional and generally asshole-ish they are being.

I feel that this is mostly a kneejerk reaction to AI and Google in general, with people coming up with arguments to support their reaction after already forming an opinion.

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5. NoGravitas ◴[12 Nov 25 14:37 UTC] No.45900762{3}[source]▶
It's a volunteer project, they have no requirement to be 'professional'. That's basically the root of the whole issue. A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors. Free software is not a supply chain.
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6. Dylan16807 ◴[12 Nov 25 18:58 UTC] No.45904395{4}[source]▶
The word "unprofessional" here is muddying the comment more than it helps.

Let's just saying they're being asshole-ish, which is a problem for volunteer projects just as much as non-volunteer ones.

The ffmpeg twitter sucks.

7. joshuamorton ◴[12 Nov 25 20:10 UTC] No.45905758{4}[source]▶
> A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors

But it's developers do offer paid consulting as ffmpeg maintainers, which Google does pay for.