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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 4 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.402s | source
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skybrian ◴[11 Nov 25 20:48 UTC] No.45892604[source]▶
Here's a thread by Google's head of security that notes the ways they've contributed to FFmpeg over the years:

https://x.com/argvee/status/1986194852669964528

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FridgeSeal ◴[11 Nov 25 21:12 UTC] No.45892932[source]▶
Unfortunately, nobody not on Twitter can see anything except the first message, which just appears to be some corporate-deflection-speak.

It’s a trillion dollar company. I’m sure they could find rifle through their couch cushions and find more than enough money and under-utilised devs to contribute finance or patches.

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1. izacus ◴[11 Nov 25 22:40 UTC] No.45893869[source]▶
Google is one of the largest contributors to OSS in the world, so they're already throwing literal millions at OSS?
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2. Jyaif ◴[12 Nov 25 00:41 UTC] No.45894961[source]▶
They have thousands of highly paid employees working on open source; they are spending at least 1 billion per year.
3. FridgeSeal ◴[12 Nov 25 03:41 UTC] No.45896170[source]▶
I’m sure they can take a moment of their _busy schedules_ to send a patch then.

Especially if they’ve just spent all this cash on some ai tool.

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4. izacus ◴[12 Nov 25 07:33 UTC] No.45897315[source]▶
I'm sure you can as well. I had no issues contributing to ffmpeg under my company payroll before, why not you?