[GaryBluto]

It's frustrating to me how many people are siding with FFmpeg here considering how unprofessional and generally asshole-ish they are being.

I feel that this is mostly a kneejerk reaction to AI and Google in general, with people coming up with arguments to support their reaction after already forming an opinion.

[NoGravitas]

It's a volunteer project, they have no requirement to be 'professional'. That's basically the root of the whole issue. A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors. Free software is not a supply chain.

[joshuamorton]

> A hobby project is not a product, and its developers are not vendors

But it's developers do offer paid consulting as ffmpeg maintainers, which Google does pay for.

[Dylan16807]

The word "unprofessional" here is muddying the comment more than it helps.

Let's just saying they're being asshole-ish, which is a problem for volunteer projects just as much as non-volunteer ones.

The ffmpeg twitter sucks.

[adastra22]

Because we've worked as open-source maintainers and experienced the same frustrating asshole-ish behavior from companies before.