[nisa]

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.

[Phelinofist]

Finally my taxes are put to good use for once

[foxandmouse]

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.

[chimeracoder]

> 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?