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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1125 points CrankyBear | 3 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source
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nektro ◴[12 Nov 25 08:02 UTC] No.45897499[source]▶
FFmpeg is a great project but their twitter is embarrassing and should not be news
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1. u_sama ◴[12 Nov 25 09:15 UTC] No.45898039[source]▶
Why, their Twitter seems reasonable and combative towards companies who want to exploit their results without contribution ?
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2. zgk7iqea ◴[12 Nov 25 09:44 UTC] No.45898221[source]▶
google is a customer of fflabs and has enrolled them in summer of code. They also provide free fuzzing. ffmpeg is a foss, gpl-licensed project. nobody has any obligation to contribute, thus it isn't exploitation.
3. arcfour ◴[12 Nov 25 10:25 UTC] No.45898502[source]▶
This take sounds great until you realize this is literally Google using their resources to help an open source project (by reporting issues in it that ALREADY EXIST and NEED to be fixed OR users made aware if not fixed) AND they also help them by upstreaming patches (just not for this specific issue) regularly AND with monetary support.

So...your entire premise is patently false and wrong.