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skybrian ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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izacus ◴[] 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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1. Jyaif ◴[] No.45894961[source]
They have thousands of highly paid employees working on open source; they are spending at least 1 billion per year.