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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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doctorwho42 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:40 UTC] No.45891820[source]▶
Or they could contribute solutions to said bugs? Its not like they would distract that much from their bottom line
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1. degamad ◴[11 Nov 25 21:05 UTC] No.45892828{3}[source]▶
Exactly. The call-out is not "please stop doing security research". It is, "if you have a lot of money to spend on security research, please spend some of it on discovering the bugs, and some on fixing them (or paying us to fix them), instead of all of it on discovering bugs too fast for us to fix them in time".