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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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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

It's common in big tech companies to have a small internal team that has the full-time job of contributing to the FOSS software they use. That is how this should have been handled. Google wants a new feature/bug squished? You've got your team that can make the change, that's literally the whole point of FOSS.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I'm aware, sometimes they also provide funding for FOSS projects. Funding seems to be the option FFmpeg would prefer based on the title (though I've not explicitly seen a quote that says this).

    If it's a specialty codebase written entirely in assembly, as this seems to be, sometimes it just makes sense to pay someone else to do it rather than spending 3x as long getting someone in house to do because the expertise isn't there. Or just put a bounty on it, another common way to provide funding in FOSS.

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