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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: 0s | source
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justahuman74 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:36 UTC] No.45891782[source]▶
Does Google seriously not have a whole team of people who help maintain ffmpeg?
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adastra22 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:56 UTC] No.45892013[source]▶
Yes. But they don’t upstream. Why would they?
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justahuman74 ◴[11 Nov 25 20:43 UTC] No.45892550[source]▶
Great, they can fix the bugs being filed by another part of their company
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Ferret7446 ◴[11 Nov 25 20:50 UTC] No.45892646[source]▶
So would you rather Google have a secure ffmpeg while us plebian individual users continue to have an insecure ffmpeg?
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GaryBluto ◴[12 Nov 25 07:37 UTC] No.45897331{3}[source]▶
It's frustrating to me how many people are siding with FFmpeg here considering how unprofessional and generally asshole-ish they are being.

I feel that this is mostly a kneejerk reaction to AI and Google in general, with people coming up with arguments to support their reaction after already forming an opinion.

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NoGravitas ◴[12 Nov 25 14:37 UTC] No.45900762{4}[source]▶
It's a volunteer project, they have no requirement to be 'professional'. That's basically the root of the whole issue. A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors. Free software is not a supply chain.
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1. joshuamorton ◴[12 Nov 25 20:10 UTC] No.45905758{5}[source]▶
> A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors

But it's developers do offer paid consulting as ffmpeg maintainers, which Google does pay for.