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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations like Microsoft expect free and urgent support from ffmpeg volunteers. They posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority". After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead. Full story here x.com/ffmpeg/status/1775178803129602500?s=46
Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help
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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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Microsoft is the same business that is investing 100 billion dollars in openai for generative AI to build the giant AI supercomputer and steal every content created ever without paying anyone anything. They refuse to buy support contracts for open source projects where they used project work exclusively to build the MS Teams product. They are abusing the system. This shaming is necessary.
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Océane @oceane@peculiar.florist
2y
@nixCraft Looks like Bill Gates's “open letter to hobbyists”, but predictably reverse.
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