I love you ffmpeg

Could be worse, at least Google isn't opening tickets as high priority asking basic questions on how to use ffmpeg.

Unlike the Microsoft teams devs: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341 Really funny to go "this is a high priority ticket" as if they've paid to use ffmpeg in teams.

The fucking gas lighting in this response

Google provides more assistance to open source software projects than almost any other organization, and these debates are more likely to drive away potential sponsors than to attract them

"We ran AI that may or may not have found a legitimate issue, and you're not looking into it for us fast enough. That's going to drive away new volunteers that we need"

Google is trying to kill Android and take control of it, I wonder if such acts aren't part of the same agenda.

If I had an open source program that is being used by fuckers like Google, who can afford to pay but don't, and then come in and demand shit. I'd just ignore them and pretend they don't exist and continue with my life. Let them bark until they're blue in the face. But first I'd put this as the first line in the README.md “if you're a big corporation and need help, come with money. Otherwise, please don't bother me”.

FFmpeg has every right to ask this. Google can't expect to extract free labour from the community.

slay

Greedy tech should pay. No question about it.

All these company execs know is exploitation, and it's hilarious to see how immature they act when they don't get their way.

Surely Google has the resources to fix the bugs themselves. Most FOSS projects probably appreciate code contributions more than money.

They're profiting from FOSS, nobody is trying to prevent them from doing so, but they refuse to spend small amounts of money helping out part-time coders ... and you know why. That money is going to the mid-level managers themselves.

Do the right thing and help your company in the medium run, or pocket chump change? Yeah, easy answer.

That was an incredibly interesting read, and I learned a lot! Thank you for posting it!

It’s genuinely infuriating that so much labor is simply stolen, in so many different ways, from people with a passion for what they do, and turned into profit for some mega corp, with the vast majority funneled to a few people completely unrelated to ~~the~~ any work.

I mean, bugs are bugs. It's not like Google makes them they are there. It's up to ffmpeg to decide if they shoul care or not

But in general I think companies who rely on opensource need to contribute more.

"Allow me to interject and explain the four liberties..." (Or, goto fsfe.org/freesoftware )

If I understand correctly the biggest issue for FFMPEG and other projects is not only the Google and Microsoft that use them without giving back, but their chosen License. They gave permission to corporations to do this. One of the potential ways to fix this situation, is to change the license. For example from LGPL to AGPL. And then they can sell the legalese package of allowing them to break their license. The biggest difficulty is that, as a project, they'd need consent from every past and future contributors. So, yeah. I get it. This is a mess.

It would be way more easier if more corporations donated to open source projects... There's too much labour that's invisible

They should just call this an incomplete AI output. If the AI is so good, it should create the fix, add tests, and ensure nothing else breaks.

“The position of the FFmpeg X account is that somehow disclosing vulnerabilities is a bad thing. Google provides more assistance to open source software projects than almost any other organization, and these debates are more likely to drive away potential sponsors than to attract them.”

Yeah slave, stop complaining get your ass back to work because I'm about to dump more obligatory work on your lap that you will fix for no pay, I don't care you have a family to feed!

Your complaining about not having any sponsor for the free work that we sell for millions of dollars may cause that you don't get any sponsors!

The entitlement and mental gymnastics here at display is insane

Google has made billions off of open source software they got and used for free. Sure, they gave back a few fractions of a penny for each million they made with it, they gave back with adding some softwares here and there when it strategically suited them, but the simple fact is that without open source software, Google wouldn't exist today, definitely not the way they do now.

Hell, the internet wouldn't exist as it does today, it would be a tiny fraction of what it is today without open source software. Open source software is amazing yet most people in the world don't even know that it exists, that it's a concept, and that people are doing this

Yet there are countless companies profiting majorly from the work of others without giving back a dime. There are multinationals that profit in the billions from open source software without giving back properly or at all.

We need an updated GPL amendment or something that requires companies to start giving back productively in some form or another once they start majorly profiting from the work of open source projects.

"This library comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY"

- "But the 1995 rebel assault build tho."