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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1124 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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bhouston ◴[11 Nov 25 20:02 UTC] No.45892071[source]▶
I would suggest that FFmpeg spin up a commercial arm that gets support contracts with Google, Amazon, etc, but with a tight leash so that it does not undermine the open source project. Would need clean guidance as to what the commercial arm does and does not.

Probably could pull in millions per year.

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1. shevy-java ◴[11 Nov 25 20:57 UTC] No.45892723[source]▶
In general it is not good when companies get too much power. See how shopify is eating away the ruby infrastructure right now after RubyCentral panicked when shopify blackmailed the community by taking away funding. Of course it is their money, but the whole ecosystem suddenly submitting to one huge company, really really sucks to no ends. Hobbyists are at the weakest here.