It's very good that ffmpeg gets support and the sovereign tech fund is a good idea but for me it again just highlights how perverted the incentives to support open source are.
Millions of dollars are extracted by using ffmpeg from a lot of corporations, yet the German taxpayer pays for maintenance.
before any of us bein patting ourselves on the back, It's prolly best to acknowledge that without Frances copyright laws this project along with many others would've been killed by lawyers.
> before any of us bein patting ourselves on the back, It's prolly best to acknowledge that without Frances copyright laws this project along with many others would've been killed by lawyers.
How are French copyright laws responsible for this?
This is creating bad incentives - now the billions of dollars relying on that have no interest in fixing the issue and they'll do the same for other projects.
This is great news, but simultaneously disappointing that it is necessary. FFmpeg underpins tens of billions of dollars in value for the companies that use it, yet the support from the community is proportionally minuscule.
It's necessary because anytime there's talk about the original authors of open source software making money rather than big corps everyone starts frothing at the mouth and forking things to protect the leeches.
It's weird when you consider how much money corporations waste on complete bs that they can't set aside a tiny amount to support the software they use.
For the same reason that they hire cleaners to clean the windows of their buildings and pay people to check cables in their data centers. To make sure that their business isn't going to fall apart.
Millions of dollars are extracted by using ffmpeg from a lot of corporations, yet the German taxpayer pays for maintenance.