Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers
trac.ffmpeg.org
Microsoft employee:
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
Maintainer's comment on twitter:
After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.
This is unacceptable.
And further:
The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won't get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years.
But try selling that to a bean counter
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The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.
Thanks for additional context. I don't open Twitter links anymore because 3/4 of the time the link doesn't work after Musk made changes
The Elon Musk of Twitter or the Elon Musk in the FFMPEG ticket?
You can try to read through https://archive.today . It's a site archiving site, it has a couple of tricks to evade such restrictions. Not the most private one.. but better than visiting twitter directly.
I didn’t know that site worked for Twitter. I’ve just been using Nitter.
Yeah, me too, but lately Nitter almost never works :/
Maybe Microsoft responded just now to their inquiry