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Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers (trac.ffmpeg.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 54 points 7 months ago

I love how that PM brings up the fact that this is needed for a product launch. Like who cares?

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Seriously. What part of "BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE LIBRARY "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE LIBRARY IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE LIBRARY PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION." do they not understand?

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I don't see the issus though, opening a GitHub issue isn't suing

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

Need to add a 'not for use with Microsoft products, including operating systems' clause for a version or two.

[-] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago

I think adoption of the JSLint license's ”This software can oly be used for good and not evil" clause would cover that. I hear IBMs lawyers had issue with it lol

[-] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, but they were satisfied when IBM was given a license to use JSLint for evil.

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