The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
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.
We didn't make it up, this is what @microsoft @microsoftteams actually did:
trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341#c…
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
@EugeneKrapivin @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams Instead Microsoft suggested that a few thousand dollars was potentially available. Nothing was ever paid.
A few FAQs clarified here:
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