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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs (thenewstack.io)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 90 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

In a nutshell:

Google is spending a shitload of money to find bugs in FOSS projects, but then refuses to spend the fraction more it would cost to contribute an actual fix, rather than just a bug report.

Basically, they are willing a spend a ton on finding a bunch of work for FOSS developers to do, but not on actually getting any of it done.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Not just that the bug they reported only affects some obscure LucasArt codec which isn't even included in the build by default. Plus I'm pretty sure Google heavily uses ffmpeg for YouTube.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago

    Plus google doesn't really care if the obscure LucasArt codec is actually fixed, they're raising the bugs publicly to sell their AI. This is marketing, not security. The more bugs it finds the better, since sales doesn't care about the quality of the bugs found.

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